The worst part about my love for writing is school. Ugh. I hate being forced to write something that I have no interest in. I feel like professors read my papers and think to themselves, "This girl is an Engligh Minor? With a concentration in Creative Writing? Not possible. The most creative thing she has done is use proper grammar, and that doesn't even count as creativity. It just means that she knows the difference between its and it's."
Those papers always make me feel like an idiot. Especially because my writing is badass. I know how to write. I know how to write well. I am educated, young, and hip. I know the lingo, I know my grammar and punctuation (sort of), and I know what works well for me when it comes to writing. Papers that ask me to talk about prehistory or research papers are disgusting. I just want to take a book and hit myself in the head with it until I pass out.
The worst part is my procrastination. Since I hate being forced to write, I will probably wait until the last minute. This means that I care the least about it. It is boring. It sucks. I don't want to write about it anymore.
Other times, a professor will give me a great topic to write about, but there is a page limit. I once was able to write about original horror movies and their remakes. The page limit was ten pages. If I had it my way, I probably would have extended it to twenty pages. Plus, it gave me an excuse to watch horror movies throughout the weekend.
Why can't school writing be more limitless? I understand the need for a minimum or maximum amount of pages, but I don't understand a professor limiting you to what you can write about, especially if it is a writing class.
One more thing. If it is a writing class where you are asked to give your own opinion, why do professor still grade you? I put my content in the paper, I added the proper amount of quotes, I properly cited, and I gave my own opinion before coming to a conclusion. Why do you have to do my dirty and lower my grade because the opinion I gave is not the opinion you are looking for? Please stop with such nonsense. It will make a lot of students appreciate you a lot more.
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