Look, I didn't learn joined-up writing for nothing, you know!

[revena]

If you're anything like me, you've often wondered, since second grade, what exactly the point of learning cursive writing was. Every class assignment I've ever turned in since those early learning-to-write worksheets has been "neatly printed, please." I've written a few letters in cursive, over the years, but my correspondents always complain about the illegibility of my writing after a while, and I switch to printing. And that's for the few things that I don't just outright type to begin with. I've never taken extensive enough handwritten notes to require cursive, either, even if I could read my own writing when it's not printed.

So really, what was the point?

Well, I learned today that one needs to know how to write cursive in order to -take the LSAT-. There's a portion at the beginning, where you have to copy out a statement and sign underneath, and the proctors were really very fierce about it. "THIS MUST BE IN CURSIVE!" they boomed. "DO NOT PRINT THE STATEMENT! IF THE STATEMENT ISN'T IN WRITING, YOUR TEST MAY BE DISQUALIFIED!" Very dire. I'm so glad I learned my joined-up letters in second grade!

Though, it did take me about thirty seconds to remember how to do a lowercase "k."

Other than the exciting cursive portion of the test, there's nothing much of note to report about the LSAT. I think I did ok. There were some logic problems involving diagrams that I couldn't quite remember how to set up that kicked my butt a bit, but I think I smoked the reading comprehension stuff, so we'll see if it evens out.

By far the worst thing about the test was walking home in the rain afterwards. Blech. My poor shoes got completely soaked. I hope they recover alright. I hope -I- recover. I'm sitting in my flannel pajama pants (jeans being wet from the knees down from puddles) next to my little space heater, shivering and feeling sorry for myself. Maybe I'll have something warm to eat, now. That would be nice. And then I'll go write the next Valmai story, before spic_ity_do_da takes a hit out on me, or something.

Comments

[lesbiem.livejournal.com]

yeah, I totally have a hard time printing, and it makes me yearn for the days of yore when I could make beautiful block letters....damn you, society!!!!

[itseemedclever.livejournal.com]

I can totally relate to that. My ability to print letters has always sucked (I got an 'F' in penmanship in first grade), but once I got to writing in cursive I started getting compliments on my handwriting. Of course, this now means I take absurdly long on filling out forms for official documents (as most require block letters).

[lesbiem.livejournal.com]

That's why I'll never become president. Dammit.

[spic-ity-do-da.livejournal.com]

I never write in cursive except for my name when required. I seriously have a tough enough time trying to write checks all in cursive, much less complete sentences.

Then again, my print is also awkward. I write in all caps, and the only way to distinguish capital letters is that they're written a bit bigger. Compliance is for the unimaginative!