Today I'm writing a history paper. It's three weeks and one day until I plan to graduate with a BS in chemistry, but I am here on Thanksgiving break writing a history paper. This is all because of some writing requirement that my school has. We need to take four courses in any subject that have a writing (W) component to them.
I transferred from HACC, a community college, with about a million gen ed classes. However, none of those gen eds transferred as writing courses. And the chemistry program at Millersville only had two classes with a writing component: Physical Chemistry I and II. Just this year Analytical was approved as a writing course, but since I took it last spring, the writing component was not applied to my transcript even I wrote about 50 pages of lab reports for that class.
So before this fall I had three writing courses: Physical Chem I and II, and History of the Middle Ages. To fulfill my last writing requirement I decided to take History of the Renasisance and Reformation, a logical extension of the other history class. It was a good choice; I enjoy history and am learning what I believe to be useful information. However, I don't like writing, especially this paper that I'm writing on Saint Teresa of Avila.
Despite having written hundreds of pages of papers for school, written sporadically on various websites and blogs since about 2000, and keeping a not so regular personal journal, I don't really enjoy formal writing. It is hard to discipline myself to write. It is hard to research things that I'm marginally interested in. It is hard to write when there are so many other distractions that vie for my attention. I would rather watch episodes of Family Guy on Netflix or surf the web or just sleep.
So I guess that's why I'm writing this blog right now. It's just a way to escape from the more difficult writing that I should be doing.
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