struggling
Essay status: not good! I am so comfortable writing about myself online, why am I struggling so much with this?
I had to write a pretty comprehensive autobiography as a big assignment for my women’s studies class. Writing that paper was relatively easy for me… the words just flowed so smoothly. It was well-organized, candid, and (I feel) a true reflection of who I am. Today it was returned to me with an ‘A’ and very flattering comments from my professor scrawled on the last page. It gave me a huge self-esteem boost and I was on Cloud 9 the rest of the day.
So what’s wrong now? Well… I want this essay to reflect that same sincerity that was in my autobiography, but every word I write feels like it will be scrutinized to within an inch of its life by some admission counselor. This is making my writing so clunky and contrived, forced and stuffy. What the heck?! I know can do better than this!
/end procrastinator’s panicked rant
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hey annie, i changed my site yet again… i too am procrastinating an anthro paper. are you transferring schools? i’m so confused on majors (and housing) for next yr. :-(
Hey, hmm you might be right. I think it’s a lot too. I’m taking microbio and orgo right now and I feel really stupid b/c I’m not doing that great in them. The only problem is that I don’t feel really “excited” or really anything about the majors. i think the women’s studies classes can be kind of random and maybe aren’t going to look so great to med schools. they are kind of random/weird… “hist of sexuality” “witchcraft” etc. :-/ I really wanted to take a nap b/c I had two hrs of sleep last night but I ate a candybar and am not even tired now…