Very common in academics, students should adhere to this idealistic acronym "PPP" or Pretty, Proper, and Professional, which is an ideology or method to consider when submitting work, especially papers or projects. This acronym is not limited to academics, as it can be applied to other facets of life such as work, personal mottos, and more.
Professor: Make sure your project is PPP (Pretty, Proper, and Professional)!
Student: Ok.. My project will be P cubed, you got it.
Professor: Excellent, I look forward to seeing it!
Person 1: My life motto is to be PPP when in doubt.
Person 2: Not a bad life motto.
Person 1: Ikr....
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)