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KALEY PENICHE \/ THE REPORTER<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When I was ten I began to write stories in a notebook. I would spend my weekends writing because my best friend wrote in hers. It was then that I realized how much I enjoyed writing. However, it wasn\u2019t until \u00a0the seventh grade when my English teacher assigned a homework in which we have to create our own mythology that I realized how much I loved it. I remember getting off the school bus and running to my room just to get the assignment started. I came up with a dozen scenarios and it was in that moment that I knew I wanted to do this for the rest of my life. <\/span><\/p>\n

However, other assignments that I would endure later turned this passion<\/span><\/a> into a chore.<\/span><\/p>\n

While that one assignment made me proud of my writing, others made me stress over the quality of it. Quality is important and making sure that my writing is at its best is always a priority. However, there is a difference between concerning myself with the content of my writing and worrying as to whether my professor thinks that it\u2019s up to their standard.<\/span><\/p>\n

I believe that perfecting one\u2019s craft is important, but not to simply please a single individual who doesn\u2019t care about what you were trying to say because they are focused on a specific guideline. Having to write to meet specific criteria forced me to leave creativity at my door and work with my logical side. This turned writing completely into work and left no room for passion.<\/span><\/p>\n

I wouldn\u2019t mind having to write according to a specific prompt if I didn\u2019t feel like it had to be perfect. It\u2019s not about following a guideline, because you can still be creative and follow someone else\u2019s idea. Instead, it\u2019s about the grading system that we use. I will take the time to write a well thought out response to a prompt and would love to discuss it. However, all the students get in return is a simple letter grade at the top of their work. <\/span><\/p>\n

In other words, the hundreds of words that are made up by thousands of letters that I put to the paper boil down to a single letter.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just about writing, as students have all kinds of passions. Which is why I reached out to another Miami Dade College<\/span><\/a> student, Yasined Fernandez, and asked her how she felt about her passion, art. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI used to take art classes with the intention of just spending all my time creating new unique pieces and learning new weird techniques. At first, I\u2019d walk into class, happy and willing to make something new, but after a while, I\u2019d dread the idea of having to pick up a brush,\u201d Fernandez said. \u201cI don\u2019t know why school tends to screw over our passions, making them feel like chores, but over the span of my time in that class, I started to hate art, and the whole concept of art.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Fernandez made me realize that this discontent I feel is completely normal. I\u2019m not simply being a lazy procrastinator; I\u2019m feeling something that I believe every student feels at some point with their own passions.<\/span><\/p>\n

While I do believe that school can turn our passion into a chore, I think it is up to us to keep the love for it alive. I don\u2019t want to think about the fact that I stopped writing because I just got tired of having to do it. I want to think about the fact that I got over the hassle of writing for school and continued to write for myself. <\/span><\/p>\n

I propose that we make time for our passions outside of school and work. Let\u2019s make sure that we continue doing the things that we love despite the chore-like feeling that school might make us have about it sometimes.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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