College English Rant

Well I was gonna write a blog post here but then suddenly I found myself IMing three people at once.  Hold on a minute.

Okay, I'm back.

I've spent a horrid number of hours this week on this paper for my college English class.  I'm writing about the controversy over standardized testing.  As far as I can tell, just about every American who writes scholarly papers is opposed to standardized tests.  How do those tests still exist?

Part of me is like, whyyyy am I writing about standardized testing, when I could be writing about dragons and magic and adventure?  Another part of me is like, wouldn't it be so much more constructive to be building a video game right now?  And yet another part of me is like, can I go take a nap or something?

I am not a fan of this English class. But I have to take it and get a good grade if I'm going to get my degree.  Aside from that, probably the only thing I'm going to get from this class is some writing skills.  I guess that's a good thing.  I like to write--as long as I'm writing about something that interests me.  The things we write about in this English class don't interest me a whole lot.

/endrant