The Down Side of an Education

 

 

The picture is how I feel every time I'm asked to write something beyond my first and last name.  These past two weeks I have been working with two of my classmates on creating a wiki (code word for, lots of words required).  It never sounded like a good idea to me and now that we're almost finished it sounds like an even worse idea because we have to include our thoughts.  My thoughts, well I'd rather not say because my teacher may read this.  As a teacher I can see great value in the use of wikis and assigning the requirement to students, just as long as I'm not the student doing the writing.  I assigned the title of Colonel to Emily and told her she was in charge. I could tell when we first started putting our heads together she had more drive than I did when it came to getting this assignment finished, so she's been the leader and a darn good one.  She stays in contact, something I wouldn't have done. She makes sure we're getting the parts each of us are responsible for finished and checks on our progress as we near the finish line, that sounds like we have the right person leading this mess; I mean education experience.

 

I've never liked summarizing books, that means I have to repeat what I just read but in my own words, uggh. I don't write, everything about writing is painful and my spelling is terrible which makes writing even worse.  Emily sounded so cheerful and sure we could do this, can I be her?  I have not been cheerful even for a moment and most of the time I've banged my head on the desk and hoped we'd have a world wide blackout on all internet connections, so the assignments would just go away.  Of course satellites could always send signals and having once worked in that industry I know my teacher would figure out a way to use it for a means that would allow us to finished this mess, I mean wonderful assignments.  Even worst, Emily most likely would help the teacher make it happen just so our group would finish.  I did say she's doing a great job at being the Colonel of our group and the motto of any good Colonel is, "just make it happen."

 

 

And as a final thought you may be thinking if I dislike like writing so much why did I create this blog; answer, to avoid working on my assigned portion of the wiki.