Student arrogance
In response to today’s Daily editorial, which merely stated the benefits of PWR, one student chose to exhibit the arrogance that crops up occasionally on campus. Basically, s/he believes, s/he is a phenomenal writer with absolutely no need to improve his/her writing. The first part of that may very well be true — some students enter Stanford as published novelists, and many are incredible writers — but the second part of that belief is crap. Everyone can get better. No class will make you worse at something. Maybe this student has a good grasp of the basics of writing — so prove it. Write a stellar final paper, win a Boothe Prize. How can you honestly believe that you cannot benefit at all from writing multiple drafts of a paper and discussing it with your peers and instructors (who are pretty intelligent too, you know)? The poster perhaps has a reasonable point that people should have the option to place out, but provided that they’re placing into a more advanced class dedicated to improving their writing, such as WIM courses. To believe that one can enter Stanford with no room for improvement is arrogant, sad and patently ridiculous.
Tags: PWR, student arrogance, writing improvement