That Was Then :: Writing Education Essays

That Was Then ...Oh. It's you. Hi... ...O.k., well, here's the thing. I was looking at this paper that I had written a long time ago... ...Well, it seems like a long time ago. Anyway, as I was saying, I was reading this paper and I said to myself, I said self, what's up with this? I mean it was so obvious to me that I had no clue as to what to write about... ...Why is it obvious I had no clue? Well that's easy. I have no clue as to what I was trying to say and I wrote the thing. I mean I read it over a couple of times and tried to understand it, I just couldn't. The only thing I could get from the thing is that I most likely wrote it at the last minute and made it up as I went along. It's like I didn't put any thought into it at all. I mean come on - college is like a chair?... ...Why is that bad? Because I claimed to be able to sit on my college education if all else fails. What the hell did I mean by that?... ...Try to analyze it all you want. The fact remains that it even fell one paragraph short of the perfect theme paper. The only thing I can say is that it sounds like I am tired of writing papers... ...O.k. Maybe I am being a little hard on myself. After all, it was the beginning of the quarter and I had no idea as to what type of writing I could get away with. I mean, for so long now I have had to write to fit the criteria that was expected by a particular teacher/professor. I was limited as to what I could say and how I could say it. Now suddenly I'm supposed to believe that a professor is going to accept my writing in the manor in which I choose to write? Yeah right. I would guess I basically took the safe rout on that paper. I should have gone with a metaphor of Jeopardy. I know I could Have been more creative with that. It's kind of funny reading the paper again after so much time has passed. It sounds like I was trying to convince myself that I believed what I was writing along with trying to convince a professor.