Looking at the 3 red marks on my “C” paper, I started to finally realize that English is a pointless class. So far I don’t think I’ve ever been taught how to write a paper. It’s just the same bullshit where I’m assigned a 5 page paper and get 3 mispelling errors handed back to me with a bright red “C” on it.

I did however realize that writing is like Art. Some people have the gift, and others just blow at it no matter how hard they try. English teachers are like Art critics. Somehow Samuel Colderidge, under the influence of opium, can write something brilliant, because I’m sure he ment to use all of the symbols and paradoxes. Does it surprise anyone that our “greatest” poets were fucking high all the time? It’s all bullshit.

And why the hell should I follow something that was just “made up” over time. I’d like to see the debate over the proper use of the semi-colon. Or did one of those stoner poets make that up too? At least math has some logical reasoning, where it makes sense that 10 divided 2 equals 5. English has no logical reasoning, it’s just some fat white guy telling me to write like him.

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