Is there any activity more soul-crushingly dull than writing a personal statement for school applications? Even for, oh painful irony, a blogger? I’ve been blathering about myself effortlessly for almost six years now, but now there is a goal involved, my typing rate has slowed to approximately one sentence per hour.
Perhaps the problem is that I have taken the dubious tack of writing about how I am a good writer and therefore a good candidate for law school, which is 1) astonishingly dull for me to write and anyone to read, and 2) puts a lot of goddamn pressure on myself. I mean, seriously?! What the fuck was I thinking?! Because the danger of claiming you are a good writer, is that you actually have to write good (there, I’ve already failed). But how else do I spin my worthless creative writing degree into gold?
I would much rather write about something that more closely resembles assignments I’d actually be doing in a school of law. Like, I don’t know, write about a law or some shit. Maybe the Magna Carta. Hell, even an old timey cargo ship named “the Magna Carta” would have more relevance and bearing on what I’d be actually doing, than whether or not some boring old bitch could write about writing. Bah.
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