I got my degree a few years ago and since then I haven’t written many essays. If you don’t use a skill you start to lose it and my skill at writing has taken a nose dive. I thinking about returning to school to get an advanced degree next year and so I’m using this blog to practice. That said, please be as savage as possible when ripping my ideas apart. This isn’t a request for flames, comments like ‘you suck’ aren’t very useful. What I want is comments along the lines of ‘you suck because . . .’