You know, when I was a senior in high school, I took a class called AP (Advanced Placement, for those who don't know) European History. I had to write a 3 page essay practically every other night, and each one usually took about an hour.
Fast forward to the present. I'm a sophomore in college, so I should be better at writing essays, right? You'd think so. But it's taken me an entire freakin' night to write 2 pages of my 3 page history essay. I'm still not done, and the dang thing is due in 10 hours.
This is going to be a looooooooooooong semester. I just want to make movies, dang it. Why is that so hard to understand?
UPDATE
Well, 40 minutes later, I'm done. And the essay is basically crap. I must've typed the word "African-American" about 100 times. I'm afraid to overuse "black" in a class where the writing guide warns against "jingoist nationalism" (see Wednesday's post).
They always said AP classes would prep you for college....the jury is out on that one.
Just be happy you're not a hard sciences major, otherwise you'd really have to be spending endless hours staring at textbooks.
Posted by: jaws at February 4, 2005 09:27 PM