It is really hard to be as green as everyone wants you to be when your major requires to print out several pages of writing assignments every week. I recycle and compost as much as I can but because I study English, I'm sure that my ecological footprint is huge.
Last semester, I averaged about three papers a week. Each paper was at least three pages long. This isn't counting the final few weeks of the semester when I had to complete several assignments that had an eight page minimums.
This time around is definitely not as bad coursework wise, but I still have to print out at least six pages a week because of my poetry workshop course. And since it's poetry, the assignment hardly ever takes up more than half a page. I just need the extra copies so my workshop group members can look over my poem and give me their feedback. Feedback that I don't always reference in the end.
In short, a forest dies just so that I can struggle to compose a sestina. I should work harder to make each word count since a life was taken to make it possible.
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