My My teacher for my western civ class only gives out three tests a semester, so you have to do good on all of these tests to be able to pass the class. He also does powerpoint slides, with very little information. You have to listen to him and write down the key points, and decide what you think is important. If you miss something, your screwed. Well, over the past 6 weeks I had taken 23 pages of notes in his class. A week and a half ago my computer decided to crash, which means I lost everything. My music, my pictures, my files, my english documents, and of course my 23 pages of notes.

Now, my main concern isn’t that the notes are gone, or that I am not going to remember the material. The test is tomorrow, Wednesday. My main concern is that 80% of his test is essay questions. I thought this would be a good topic to write about for my blog because what history class makes you write essays for your test? He wants 3 complete essays, 4 paragraphs each, and he also has short answer questions(a paragraph each, which isn’t too bad).

So as I sit here and freak out about my essays and my paragraphs, I recall everything we have talked about in the past few weeks in english. How everything about writing essays is bull shit. But I have to wonder, Does my history teacher think that everything about writing essays is bull? Or  how I choose to write going to be a problem, or will it fit up to his standards? Aren’t we supposed to take what we learn from our english classes and apply it to every aspect of our writing? But that poses my question, What if my history professor doesn’t like how I go about my writing?

What if I fail because of how I choose to write, or how I choose to organize my information.

What if..