Too Much Freedom

I've been struggling recently with my final essay projects. I have one for journalism, one for LAS, and one for French--and they all are "prompt-less." Take a subject we've discussed, use works we've read, write about something that's personally important to you while still being relevant to the course material. I'm about to explode.

They probably think they're doing us a favor by giving us this freedom to write about what we want to write about. The problem is, if I wrote about what I wanted to write about, it would be a blog post, not a formal essay. And especially not one in French.

My French essay went horribly. I switched topics three times, and still ended up with a thesis and essay that absolutely sucked AND I only got 2.5 pages out of it instead of the required 5. It's quite possible I will fail that class. But I'm struggling to care. My GPA is so locked-in that it would take quite a disaster for me to drop below a 3.5, and not officially acquiring a French minor isn't that big of a deal to me. No one cares about your minors anyway; they're kind of more for you than for your resume. And I definitely got a lot out of my French minor, regardless of whether or not it ends up on my transcript.

Happy Mother's Day to all!