Remember the unbelievably tedious process of learning to write cursive? Suffering through stroke after stroke of bizarre looking letters that sometimes didn’t even resemble “normal” letters? We diligently endured this because our teachers assured us it would shape people’s perceptions of us. How can you trust someone who has a runny “n” or a slouchy “g”? I took it seriously, exercising my cursive in my diary. But now electronic communication has practically made handwriting obsolete. Now I only use a pen to take orders, write grocery lists and scrawl notes in class. All of this can be done with chicken-scratch, which means we never needed to get all riotous about the capital Q looking like a 2. [Molly Rettig]
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