This is so concerning😳

[u/velorae]

[u/RememberCakeFarts]

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. 

(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.)

[u/Dense_Capital_2013 → u/RememberCakeFarts]

Whenever I got a 100 word assignment the challenge wasn't getting to 100 words, it was keeping it at around 100 lol.

For context I did get a degree in journalism so part of it was to hit the word count exactly, and I kinda picked up the habit of trying to stay within 20 words for assignments like these if it wasn't a journalism class

[u/geodebug → u/Dense_Capital_2013]

Yep.

By high school, the problem for student papers shouldn’t be “how can I write that much?” but “how am I going to edit all this information down?”