Saturday Night. I have three 3 Musketeers. Jealous? I’m cozy at home, on our
big brown couch with my fuzzy socks on. My Saturday night couldn’t be more appealing.
It’s moments like these that I try to cherish. My dorm room bed has nothin’ on
this couch! I love Three Musketeers.
Okay so today I am not going to reflect on something in my
daybook. I’m gonna try to switch it up and try something a little different.
Life is boring if you always do the same things.
This past Thursday I had to write a midterm essay for US
History. We weren’t told what the essay would be on. We only knew it had to be
4-5 pages and needed to include a reference from something we’ve read in the
class in each paragraph. Did I mention we only had an hour to write this essay?
So I decide to just study as much as I can. There’s really
not that much a person can study for an essay exam. I looked through all the
main ideas we talked about over the first half of the semester and just jammed
my head with information. But this reflection is less about the actual essay
and more about the idea of timed essays, so let me get to that.
Basically, I think timed essays are ridiculous. What does it
prove to teachers??? I had to rush through the whole thing and it probably sounded
like crap. It probably made zero sense and my main ideas were not clear or made
any sense at all. So what’s the point? Yea, okay it shows that we are actually
learning something but there’s no way I’m going to be able to remember a billion
examples we read, especially without knowing the topic of the essay beforehand.
I can’t grasp my mind around it. If we go home and write the essay, it’s going
to sound better, it’s going to have better grammar, our ideas will be clearly
stated, plus it’ll be typed! I am officially anti timed essays. Hopefully I passed
the stupid thing.
And for those who are as unfortunate as I am, here’s a few
tips:
First comment whoo!
ReplyDeleteAnyways, first of all, mint 3 musketeers is the way to go. But, I completely understand. An essay would be more effective and thorough if you weren't constricted to 60 minutes. And to be honest, does that include writing your name and the date? It's like on the AP exam where we had to pace ourselves for 25 minute sessions or whatever.
Whenever I write an essay i always feel the same way. I think it was a horrible essay and there is no point to work on it; however, after a draft or two, its becomes a really good essay and something you can be proud of. :)
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