Future glories for English majors?

I hope my ability to write solid papers does not totally die out in the next semester when we are done with college. (I say this on behalf of everyone, not pridefully endorsing my exceptional writing talent and aptitude—no. We’re English majors. We write fifteen page papers weekly. You guys know what I’m talking about, and I say this for all of you. What if we get too busy sucked into writing lesson plans in the future that we forget how to write in a variety of forms?) I set aside all of this weekend to crank out my final Comparative Literature paper, and it took me like…a couple hours. Solid transitions, solid intro and conclusion, good flow. It’s just because we’re so well practiced. We know what we want to say and we know how to go about it. I remember freshmen year of college how long it took me to write final papers. I would outline them, sit and stare at the wall, skip transitions and go back later to add in the connection points, struggle, struggle, struggle! Or in high school, when you work for an entire month on nothing but a single end-of-the-term research paper. How did it take us that long?!? I’ll probably take a break from education for a while (as a student, that is…) and then head back for a Masters in a couple of years. What if I have forgotten how to write at that point and can’t put together solid work for the masters? This is our first time not being in school for a bajillion years ... most of our lifetime! I hope that we can still be at the peak of where we are at now. I hope this isn’t the finest we have in us and it is all downhill from here. I hope I have time to blog, journal, or write for fun. I hope I pursue publishing a book, doing public speaking, or organizing a drama ministry. I hope this goes beyond getting a paper with our name on it, enabling us a larger job market and more funding.

Let there be more.