Welcome to 32nd and Chestnut...

This is the blog for 75 or so Drexel students, most of whom are new to college and new to Drexel.

We'll document the strangeness of college life, try to translate our experience for diverse readers, and chronicle what it means to be a college student during these crazy days of economic turmoil and political battle.

That's it for now; I have to go an play Spore.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Slow Your Roll

I have never enjoyed writing. A lot of things, academic-wise, come naturally to me, but writing has never been one of them. It's something I have always struggled with. Words don't "come to me" the way they do to most of my friends. I can sit for an hour staring at my computer screen, thinking about what I am trying to write, and still have no idea how to proceed. I don't know why I've always had so much trouble with it, and nothing I've ever learned in English class has ever helped me. I've taken to procrastinating on any writing projects I may have because I write much faster under pressure, without, it seems, reducing the quality of my work (not that much of it was any good to begin with). The problem with this is that I sometimes end up missing deadlines, and that, of course, does not improve my grade either. That said, the curriculum of this course, while laid out somewhat differently from my previous English courses, has yet to instill in me any confidence in my writing or inspire any interest in the writing process.

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