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The one and only essay, bane of students one and all. :P

Anyways, do you or do you not like writing essays for school?

I'm sure a majority will say yes, and sad to say, I'm going to conform and say I absolutely hate writing them, although they are absolutely necessary for academic future.
The only essays I actually ever love to write are history essays, because as you may or may not know, I am a history fanatic. :P
 
Depends what the subject is.... I don't like writing English essays. "Blah blah explain the hardships of each story and explain how racism affected each character." Ughhh, I don't care!!!!!
 
LOL, I hate English essays, especially if it's about books and themes and character analyses and whatnot. :brooding:

They take up way too much time and chances are, we'd forget what they're all about anyway.
 
Especially when you do a book that you were forced to read that was terrible. *Ahem* The play: "A Raisin in the Sun"....ughh!!! I hated reading it! Blah blah "go deeper in the plot analysis, what is the symbolism of this character and this item he/she has means?"
 
Really? I quite liked that play, wasn't too short nor was it too long.

But anyways, yeah, character analyses are the worst, especially if the teacher pushes you to dissect every single aspect of it. Ugh.
Or if you actually have to go online to figure some things out. Ugh.
 
I love writing. So pretty much I'm happy to be writing, regardless of whatever the subject is. I'm not a terrific writer... but I'm definitely not the worst either. Even so, there's nothing I enjoy more than sitting somewhere comfortable and scribbling notes, even if it is for a class.
 
it depends, i like writing essays when its a subject i enjoy - like History or english - especially english as i get to use all the fancy words in my repotoire :D

But i absolutely DESPISE writing French essays, and media studies essays. they make me so mad because - media was a stupid subject and French...well do i look like i speak french? :P
 
I love writting, I can write from six to almost twenty pages long essays without caring or running out of ideas. The ones I love the most are writing about social problems such as war, maltreatment or social issues such as new laws and such.

In general, I love essays that allow the writer to expose his/her own point of view and I hate writing about character analysis since they limit the way I can freely express because they force me to talk only about the character.
 
Yes and No...

I don't mind writing an essay if it's on a subject that know well.

However, I fully agree with Mystrila. I couldn't stand having to write an essay for English Lit.. What was the symbolism of this? or I want an in-depth five page analysis off one sentence made by a character in some book or play. (I had an evil English Lit professor).
 
I actually really enjoy English Lit. papers just as long as one standard is met: The book is as good as advertised. lol I don't mind looking deep between the written lines into the context hidden beneath... just as long as there's actually fucking hidden context somewhere in the book. A lot of times it will be things like "As Johnny walked Margret home from the winter church ball, he could not help but notice a star shaped tear of sadness form in her eyes." And then the hidden meaning is that she's really Jewish or something lame like that. There's very few books I've read that actually have real symbolism in them.
 
I hate writing essays, for I fail to see how knowing how to write an essay is going to help me in the art field at all.

...although, what really irks me is that the required English class they throw at me is Writing Experience. To me, it sounded like a class where you experiment with a variety of writing styles, from poems to short stories.

But nooooo...all you do in there is write goddamn essays. :dry: How the hell is it going to help in an art degree? I fail to see the logic in these pre-req classes.
 
That's a pre-req for art?
I find that illogical as well. :huh:

Well maybe, it's practice for when you professionally start criticizing other people's work, where you have to write a full-blown paper about it.
I hope they're not too long, right?
 
I actually enjoy writing essays, especially when i write them the night before they are due and still get the highest grade in the class
 
DKnight said:
I actually enjoy writing essays, especially when i write them the night before they are due and still get the highest grade in the class
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Yeah, specially when knowing that some of your classmates did the work weeks ago before the due date and that they spent a lot of time finishing them. Then you (well most of us) do a last moment work and gets the best grade XD

It's really funny
 
Not only really funny, but still, you must be really proud. XD

I've done that once or twice, but I take care not to blurt anything out about the fact that I pulled an 'all-nighter' because I'd probably get ballyhooed for it. :P
Usually, I get my essay inspirations at night anyways, because that's when I'm most pensive.
 
Warbourne said:
Usually, I get my essay inspirations at night anyways, because that's when I'm most pensive.
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I've always said that it is the eternal night which inspires most of use to write and analyze things more. It's the vast and seemingly unending night we see while staring at the sky which allows us to see more and way beyond our imagination...
 
I suppose, though I work best under the glaring lights of my desk lamp. XD
Actually, I just take a bunch of books out from my mini-library, open them up, search for relevant ideas, then throw them in a hodgepodge of ideas that eventually will become my essay.

My essays are actually kind of random, I just say whatever comes to my head, no matter how far it is from the main point of the essay I'm writing...it's just that I manage to tie it to that point no matter what. That's what I'm really proud of about my writing, really, being able to make something out of nothing.
 
...we write easier at night because that's the time when no one is up to bother you with tedious things like chores and whatnot. ;) Gives us more time to deal with our own troubles without having someone with a shrill voice nagging at you in the background.
 
Writing essays? Why yes, of course...I love it. I especially loved timed-writing essays for English AP. You basically have 45 minutes to do it. I love the rush and freaking out whether you'd finish it or not.

Forget the whole brainstorming crap - you'll simply have no time. Just get to the point and analyze this and that. "What's the thesis?!", you ask yourself. Figure it out quick or you're dead meat.

You then look at the time - uh oh, 5 minutes left. Screw the 3rd body paragraph (you have no time to finish it, so either think quickly or make up some random crap just to make it sound prettyful :D ) and get to the damn conclusion.

You submit the essay and feel relief wash over you. Best feeling in the world.
 
I don't mind essays at all as long as I can base them on my opinions and beliefs instead of being pin-point directed on what to write about. When a professor bitches at you because you didn't do it, "his way", then the teacher can F-off.

I like putting my own creative spin on anything even though I suck at English, so whatever I can flow with, I give a shot. Sure they are a pain sometimes, but it can be fun writing them.
 
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