Christopher Lambert's Online Journal

Is this my last one, already, but they're all so much fun to write

The title is inappropriate, but I'm bored of writing blogs. I know we get graded on relating back to class but, I find that boring too. Most of what we learn in class isn't ground breaking enough, or so previously unknown that I feel enlightened after hearing about it, for me to write an actual response.

If I tried, it'd be a cheesy, we-all-know-this-is-B.S. post. I could write a boring but honest okay-so-what-do-you-want-me-to-say-about-this post, but that isn't fun.

I end up torn among writing what "I should" write to get the grade, writing my honest opinion which probably wouldn't score me any points, babbling, or writing a mixture of the three along with the creative, personal flare that blogs are supposed to incorporate.

Yes, this is prep work for the "real world", but if the real world can't handle words like "nope", I don't want to write for it.

(Here comes my relating to class. Nothing concrete, but it talks about class.)

The grading for this class has been harsh, but not for the sake of harshness. We're graded this way because the people with experience, that are teaching and preparing us, feel we need to understand how proper and strict the profession is.

For me, it's been deflating. I don't want to be a machine. Yes, the assignment says relate to class, but what if I don't want to? The grade isn't enough to motivate me. If it was "write blog entries and try to relate them to class, but the more important thing is to be writing professionally in terms of grammar and word choice, so if you don't talk about class, it's no big deal, just remember your audience and what we're looking for" I wouldn't have a problem. Even if only one entry had to relate to class, I'd accept that. I just hate the rigidness, the constraint, of it.

I hope the business world isn't as terminator-esque as it's been made to seem at times.