I have an essay due in six days and I still haven’t started it. It is a fairly easy essay, just about plastic. That’s the only prompt my professor gave the class.
“Write a 15 page paper about plastic. GO.”
I can’t do it. I don’t know why, I just can’t. I would rather do anything than that paper. I got a one-week extension on it because I didn’t start it last week, either. We have had this assignment for a month now, and it was on the calendar previous to a verbal assignment. Why is it so difficult?
So, here I am, writing about my struggle to write. Writing about my desire to write about how I can’t write this essay instead of writing the essay I can’t write. I have done more difficult things, like a 25 page research paper on drugs in ancient mummies, but I got to choose that. I chose that because it was interesting, and I was given creative freedom. This? This is awful. It’s sad, and as much as I like to focus on world issues, this is not what I have ever written about.
But, this is college. I just need to get over it.
