Whenever I sit down to write a paper for a class, say
maybe for English, it always seems like I can manage to come up with at least a
little bit of my paper. But, as I’m sure everyone agrees, I can write so much
more all at once and have a lot more to say when I put myself in a certain
environment.
Back when I was in high school, I took a required composition
class my junior year. My teacher taught us that people write better at
different times during the day. Whether it be early in the morning or way late
at night, everyone has a different period during their day when they can
getting the “writing juices” flowing. It was funny, because eventually in that
class, we would have people walk in on the day that our papers due, and they would
say things like, “I’m so tired; I stayed up all last night to write the rest of
my paper because I write better late at night!” There were times when I would
fall victim to one of these late nights, perhaps because I tend to be a night
owl. Now that I’m in college though, I tend not to stay up too too late to do homework,
unless I can sleep in a little bit in the morning.
Now that I’m here at Illinois State, I often try to do
my homework in my dorm room, simply because I am too lazy to take all my stuff
and walk somewhere else to do it. But there are times where I cannot focus at
all in my dorm room, whether it be because of roommates, or just because. This is
when I like to go to Milner Library. My favorite place to go in Milner is on
the fourth floor in the corners with the huge windows. Not only is it quiet,
but I love being able to look outside and see everything. I don’t know why, but
for whatever reason, this helps me to be more creative with my writing. 346
