Saturday 20 September 2008

I take back everything I've ever said...

I'm currently writing my first essay in 8 years and it's hard! Being a scientist/mathematician I've always liked to express the opinion that of course science and maths is far more difficult and requires much more work than humanities. (This was probably also fuelled at university by all those humanities students who only had about 2 lectures a week.) But I have to take it all back now. I'm struggling with this first essay for my course and it's only 700 words! I'm interested in the topic and can easily talk about and debate it, but putting words on paper...it's so hard! I shall have to wait for the bf to get home (he's an english literature masters graduate) so he can help me.
Needless to say, not much knitting has been going on lately.

2 comments:

Nik said...

Being a scientist sometimes makes it difficult for me to write 'flowery' language that is sometimes required to write essays for such classes. I joke that Science has turned me into a cold, "just-the-facts-ma'am" kinda girl *lol*

katylouise said...

This is so true! It is such a different skill having to write about opinions rather than facts.