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OrientedDis.. Disoriented. |
Monday, December 09, 2002 Then again.. Maybe I'll just work nights and sleep during the day. I have some sort of brilliance at night with my thoughts and writing. The most brilliant thesis came to my mind and I'm rushing like mad to type all of my thoughts down. If my hist. prof. doesn't like my paper, then he simply lacks depth. He once told me: "Perhaps that's the problem.. you're trying to make things too complicated." Yet he wants us to get down to "the root" of historical matters, but when I write my papers, after thinking things over for quite a while and deciding what I feel ought to be the basis of addressing the issue, he doesn't enjoy reading original ideas. Instead he would rather bore himself with 50 different papers on similar conclusions. I don't understand, but I refuse to compromise my ideas and writing to conform to what I know he wants us to write about (even though he encourages us to think of our own original ideas as well). Another thing - random - it's interesting to me how I'm discovering many students send their papers back home via e-mail to have them revised by their parents. I'll admit, I sometimes had my mother overlook papers I wrote back in high school, but she once stated: "Once you're in college I'm not always going to be here to edit your papers for you.." And I haven't asked her to edit any of my college papers as that statement continues to loom in my mind. It's kind of nice seeing how my writing - without the influence of outside help - measures-up according to college professors. Another random - I always feel awkward typing about my writing ability in a blog post as I believe blog entries reflect nothing of my ability to write. I should take more time with everything I write, but unfortunately time has to be cut somewhere. . . . babbled Lin |
