It sucks you had such a bad experience with your degrees, I’m going back for a second time to college and I feel like I’m learning a ton. My first experience sucked too, I don’t know if I just got insanely lucky this time around with college choice or what.

There’s nearly a 20 year gap between my first attempt and now, and I can definitely see a difference in the other students’ essay writing abilities compared to what I saw 20 years ago. I think part of that is that my high school English classes had large segments of class time devoted only to essay writing, and based on my conversations with younger students it sounds like there’s much less emphasis on that in high school education now.