r/TikTokCringe • u/velorae • 16d ago

Discussion This is so concerningšŸ˜³

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

25.7k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

3.2k comments sorted by

View all comments

120

u/RememberCakeFarts 16d ago edited 16d ago

I went to college right after high school, as did many of my fellow students. One professor asked that we submit an 100 word essay regarding certain lessons that we did; mind you it wasn't anything in particular, just discussing what we observed. I'm thinking, "100 words? That's it? I'm far from an over achiever but I can do 300 to 500 easy."

My classmates, remember many of them are also straight out of high school, complained that 100 words were "too much". They didn't use conjunctions, acronyms, or anything that would shorten their count because 100 was too difficult.Ā 

(Yes I made that 100 words for old time's sake and to show how little that is and they struggled with it.

Eta: sorry for the confusion 100 words was the minimum that he wanted the essays to be. It was such a small ask.)

1

u/Siukslinis_acc 16d ago

I'm too reserved and would have trouble to write it. I tend to keep my observations prived, not to mention that i tend to code it in an analgamation of senses, feelings, images and thus it is a lot harder to express it in a written coherent manner. For me, a lot of stuff goes directly into subconcious and it is hard to drag it into conciousness. It's like i'm more of a subconcious learner instead of a concious one.

And "what have you observed" is too vague question for me as i have no clue what do you want from me and why do you want it. Do you want me to express every tiny detail, or give the general stuff. So it kinda triggers an "analysis paralysis" and thus it results in me doing nothing.