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My handwriting sucks

CJTheranCJTheran Registered User regular
edited November 2007 in Social Entropy++
My professor just asked me to not write in cursive on a test, as my handwriting is so bad that she's unable to read it.

Should I bother trying to write properly in the future, or should I just continue to let all those valuable skills I learned in third grade waste away?

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  • bentbent Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    nobody writes essays any more get on the trolley

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    cursive?

    i don't control how my handwriting comes out

    it just is the way it is

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  • ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Jesus I haven't written in cursive beyond my Herbie Hancock in over 10 fucking years.

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  • SkankPlayaSkankPlaya Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    I once had a teacher return a blue-book to me in college and told me to type it up and turn it in. At least she didn't summarily fail me, which she could have done. Funny thing is, I had to get my roomate to help me decipher what I wrote, because I couldn't do it.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Butters wrote: »
    Jesus I haven't written in cursive beyond my Herbie Hancock in over 10 fucking years.

    yup

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  • KnobKnob TURN THE BEAT BACK InternetModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited November 2007
    Maybe you should get out of the dark ages and learn to write like the rest of civilization

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  • JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    cursive is the most useless thing to learn ever, I swear.

    I think they just teach you it so you can have a signature.

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  • MonkeybombMonkeybomb Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    My cursive has been horrible since I learned how to do it. It doesn't look like a child's writing anymore, but it certainly is not what you would call legible.

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    man my signature is pretty retarded

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  • FAQFAQ Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    You can write faster in cursive Jordyn

    Edit: also my handwriting is diabolical and sometimes illegible even to myself

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  • ReTardisReTardis Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Just write in all (non-cursive) caps, but make the actual capitals take up the whole height of the line, and lowercase take up half the height

    Unless your handwriting is so bad that even that can't help you

    In that case, I guess get a seeing-eye dog to write it for you, or some shit. I don't know.

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  • CJTheranCJTheran Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    I don't even really write in cursive; mid word it'll randomly switch between cursive and print lettering. Shit's joined in random places, and there's generally nothing that even resembles words on the page.

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  • MonkeybombMonkeybomb Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Butters wrote: »
    Jesus I haven't written in cursive beyond my Herbie Hancock in over 10 fucking years.

    This reminded me of jazz.

    Last night my girlfriend and I did a duet humming Take Five.

    I was all layin' down the solid rhythm and she was soloing on top.

    dundun dundun duuuundun dundun dundun duuuundun dundun dundun duuuundun

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  • erisian popeerisian pope Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    My handwriting sucks

    My printing swallows

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    CJTheran wrote: »
    I don't even really write in cursive; mid word it'll randomly switch between cursive and print lettering. Shit's joined in random places, and there's generally nothing that even resembles words on the page.
    Yeah that's pretty much mine.

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  • ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Jordyn wrote: »
    cursive is the most useless thing to learn ever, I swear.

    I think they just teach you it so you can have a signature.

    I swear I remember a teacher of mine telling me you have to write in cursive when making out cheques.

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  • CJTheranCJTheran Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Knob wrote: »
    Maybe you should get out of the dark ages and learn to write like the rest of civilization

    But just drawing pictures that vaguely represent the concepts I'm trying to get across does the job well enough; why should I adapt?

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  • JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    FAQ wrote: »
    You can write faster in cursive Jordyn

    that is such bullshit.

    how fucking slow do you write

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  • MonkeybombMonkeybomb Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    handwriting is going to be a forgotten art within 50 years

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  • ReTardisReTardis Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Butters wrote: »
    Jordyn wrote: »
    cursive is the most useless thing to learn ever, I swear.

    I think they just teach you it so you can have a signature.

    I swear I remember a teacher of mine telling me you have to write in cursive when making out cheques.

    Then that teacher was a useless idiot cuntbag

    I've always written in print on my checks

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  • ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    FAQ wrote: »
    You can write faster in cursive Jordyn

    In theory because you don't lift your pen off the paper as much but in practice, no it really isn't any faster. Not for me anyway.

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  • FAQFAQ Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Jordyn wrote: »
    FAQ wrote: »
    You can write faster in cursive Jordyn

    that is such bullshit.

    how fucking slow do you write

    Well i can

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  • MonkeybombMonkeybomb Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Something makes a weird connection in my brain if I sign something while standing up and bent over at just the right angle

    I'll get this urge to twitch the corner of my mouth. I discovered this logging in and out of the gym at college.

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  • ascotascot Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    EVERYONE SHOULD WRITE IN BLOCK CAPITALS ALL OF THE TIME.

    ALSO BLACK INK.

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  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    edited November 2007
    my handwriting looks like kilrathi glyphs

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    i was standing behind an asian girl in line somewhere and she had a fancy pda phone with a touchscreen and was texting somebody in chinese by drawing the characters on the screen. she was so freaking fast with it.

    so from now on this is why i think most asians draw well : D

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  • JoonJoon Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Butters wrote: »
    Jordyn wrote: »
    cursive is the most useless thing to learn ever, I swear.

    I think they just teach you it so you can have a signature.

    I swear I remember a teacher of mine telling me you have to write in cursive when making out cheques.

    I was told that, come high school, we'll have to write everything in cursive. I believe I heard the same said of college. Also, you have to use pens, no pencils.

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  • CJTheranCJTheran Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Joon wrote: »
    Butters wrote: »
    Jordyn wrote: »
    cursive is the most useless thing to learn ever, I swear.

    I think they just teach you it so you can have a signature.

    I swear I remember a teacher of mine telling me you have to write in cursive when making out cheques.

    I was told that, come high school, we'll have to write everything in cursive. I believe I heard the same said of college. Also, you have to use pens, no pencils.

    I was not only told that, I was told that your teachers would mock you and automatically fail your assignments if they were in print/pencil. Except for math: math I was told to never use pen, only pencil.

    /shrug

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  • casper_27dcasper_27d The Friendly Ghost EverywhereRegistered User regular
    edited November 2007
    I never learned how to write in cursive, in all my college classes I just did all my work in standard print and they never gave me a problem. As long as you still get the credit for the class, does it really matter how your did the homework.

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  • KnobKnob TURN THE BEAT BACK InternetModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited November 2007
    yeah, i failed my highschool chem final because i used a pen

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  • ReTardisReTardis Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Joon wrote: »
    Butters wrote: »
    Jordyn wrote: »
    cursive is the most useless thing to learn ever, I swear.

    I think they just teach you it so you can have a signature.

    I swear I remember a teacher of mine telling me you have to write in cursive when making out cheques.

    I was told that, come high school, we'll have to write everything in cursive. I believe I heard the same said of college. Also, you have to use pens, no pencils.

    I think I was told that as well - and also, that, come 6th grade, we would all be sat down in front of a computer, a sheet put over our hands, and we'd all have to be able to type. I think I knew even in 3rd grade or whenever the hell that was that the story was complete bullshit.

    Not that I didn't learn to type anyway, but still.

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  • SheriSheri Resident Fluffer My Living RoomRegistered User regular
    edited November 2007
    My handwriting goes from really neat to really sloppy, depending on the day, and I wind up writing in some strange bastardization of print/cursive.

    This is why I prefer to type things.

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  • casper_27dcasper_27d The Friendly Ghost EverywhereRegistered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Now that I think about it, I have not actually had a need to use cursive outside of school with the single exception to when I sign my name on a check or a legal document.

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    i always get stuck having to write all of the notes whenever i'm doing a group project
    because my writing is so very legible

    it's a combination of enjoying the fact that i am able to read my own writing
    and my dad yelling at me any time my handwriting would get sloppy as a kid

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    also cursive is for fags and 70-year-old ladies

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  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    edited November 2007
    I don't even use cursive to sign my name. It always says Signature X___________________

    not Name In Cursive X___________________

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  • Fuzzy Cumulonimbus CloudFuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Butters wrote: »
    Jordyn wrote: »
    cursive is the most useless thing to learn ever, I swear.

    I think they just teach you it so you can have a signature.

    I swear I remember a teacher of mine telling me you have to write in cursive when making out cheques.
    We were taught this as well.
    When I first started writing checks it would take me forever.
    Now I just print.

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  • mcpmcp Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    I print everything that I need others to read. If it's just for myself, I write in sort of a cursive-print mix.

    When I first wake up, I can't do either for shit. Checks that I've written at 7am look like a 3 year old wrote them.

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  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Knob wrote: »
    yeah, i failed my highschool chem final because i used a pen

    Did it go on your permanent record?

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  • FFFF Once Upon a Time In OaklandRegistered User regular
    edited November 2007
    My handwriting is illegible to the extent that if someone were to base my mental health on it I would be considered legally retarded.

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    Huh...
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