Wonder how I stack up. I did dual enrollment in high school, and I ended up going the STEM path because honestly I hate writing, despite the fact that I was pretty good at it. I haven't really written an essay or read much non-technical/non-STEM stuff in probably 2 and a half years now, and recently I had to submit my junior year writing thing for the university I'm at. I went back through my stuff that I wrote in high school, and found a few good essays to submit. They ended up scoring it at the highest grade they give.
I felt like I kind of understood the Parenti quote that was along the lines of "do you know what it means to be able to read?" because I could not fully understand the papers that I wrote. Like it took me three or four tries, and that was bolstered by me remembering bits and pieces of it. STEM and it's consequences I guess.
When I was in late middle school, early high school, I could read whole, adult novels in a few days. Now I’m lucky to finish a book a year. I’m in fucking grad school. And it’s not that I don’t read because I’m busy, I’m just much worse at reading and out of practice.
Wonder how I stack up. I did dual enrollment in high school, and I ended up going the STEM path because honestly I hate writing, despite the fact that I was pretty good at it. I haven't really written an essay or read much non-technical/non-STEM stuff in probably 2 and a half years now, and recently I had to submit my junior year writing thing for the university I'm at. I went back through my stuff that I wrote in high school, and found a few good essays to submit. They ended up scoring it at the highest grade they give.
I felt like I kind of understood the Parenti quote that was along the lines of "do you know what it means to be able to read?" because I could not fully understand the papers that I wrote. Like it took me three or four tries, and that was bolstered by me remembering bits and pieces of it. STEM and it's consequences I guess.
I look back on some fiction I wrote a decade ago and literally cannot believe I wrote it. I feel like my brain has turned to moosh.
Just wanna say you can for sure write like that again, if you chose to/want to. Just rusty!
it's a skill you pick it up and lose it according to how much you practice
When I was in late middle school, early high school, I could read whole, adult novels in a few days. Now I’m lucky to finish a book a year. I’m in fucking grad school. And it’s not that I don’t read because I’m busy, I’m just much worse at reading and out of practice.