Depressed, confused, angry disappointed and disillusioned would all be great understatements to the ways I feel and the ways my paper seems. You would think that stereotypes and athletes, AND Hispanics, AND College students would all mix together fine to form a kick ass paper right? Well you were mistaken. At first, my essay seemed awesome since I had so much to work with. Writing the 8-10 pages isn’t the problem, it’s the research and the relevance of all three topics that kicking my ass. The thing that I didn’t realize while I was getting enough references to right a good essay was that they all basically state the same shit over and over again and even contradict each other the same way.
“All athletes are treated unfair because of what another smaller group of athletes have done to ruin the athlete reputation.”
“All athletes are treated like kings and don’t have to work as hard as every one else.”
“Hispanics are a valuable asset to this nation.”
All Hispanics do is take American jobs and provoke violence.”
“College students are all drunks that don’t have their priorities set correctly.”
“College students get a bad rap for what a small group actually does.”
And that wasn’t even the worse part!
I thought I had a problem with my topics and relating them to one another, but I thought I would be able to work through it,”No problem”, until the curve ball that they call the “interview process” hits me dead in the head.
I was planning on interviewing Myron Rolle, the Rhodes Scholar and Seminole defensive back for my research paper since he is living proof that contradicts the typical “dumb jock” stereotype. But then, there was no way of getting a hold of him, and I called the athletic Department on campus and they put me on hold for basically 8 hours. So then I tried to interview a couple of my buddies that were on the swim team and track team and only one of them answered me back, and he told me that he had recently quit the team! Its like someone is trying to piss me off, and nothing is going right.
AHH!! The only good thing is that Spring Break is just around the corner and I can finally step away from this paper for a couple of days and then, tackle it again until the final draft is at least presentable.
Jennifer, since I know I can probably improve this paper drastically with your critique like I did in paper one, will you give us a chance to perfect the final draft and resubmit it again like you allowed us to do for Paper 1?
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