"What is your hidden talent?" quiz revisited 7 years later instead of 5

[matt1993]

Explanation to those who are new here: I decided a couple of years ago that I'd start revisiting every quiz/survey I've posted on LJ five years later to see how things have changed. But then I procrastinated so long that I'm having to do some of them seven years later instead.

Old result:

Originally posted by matt1993 at Quiz Galaxy LIES!!

*100,000-page essay assignment shows up*

100,000-PAGE ESSAY ASSIGNMENT: Bwahahahaha...
ME: No, please! Quiz Galaxy is lying! AAAARRRRRGGHHH!!!

Give examples to support your thesis

New result:

Fits me slightly better than writing, at least!

I sense that you will repost this entry

Comments

[pathvain-aelien.livejournal.com]

I'd call it a hidden talent, since you hate doing it and agonize over it, but you are actually good at it.

[matt1993]

Even if that's the case, it certainly didn't make sense for me to get that result back in 10th grade - back then, my essays and papers and stuff usually made no sense at all unless you helped me write them. :(

And I'm still not good at creative writing - I'm definitely not "the next Pulitzer prize winner" as that quiz says.

[pathvain-aelien.livejournal.com]

They were good then, too.

[matt1993]

I suppose most of them were once I was done writing them, but back then I usually needed more help writing them. When I was in college, usually all I needed help with was motivation to work on them, but back when I was in high school, you definitely had to say way more than "sounds good, keep going" to help me with essays.

[pathvain-aelien.livejournal.com]

I think it was the same in high school. You could do it but you didn't have any confidence so you needed a push because you were afraid of writing. You wrote that Macbeth paper with minimal help (I just looked it over after) and it was great.

[matt1993]

Was that before or after the Age of Reason paper? Because looking at my old entries, I had to do that Age of Reason paper around the same time that I first took that quiz.

EDIT: No wait, the Age of Reason paper was definitely before the Macbeth one. Because I don't think I had any LJ userpics back when I was complaining about having to do the Age of Reason paper, but by the time I had to do that Macbeth paper, I already had a whole text file with ideas for userpics. (I like how I can pinpoint when random things happened in my life just based on things like how many LJ userpics I had at the time ;) )

[pathvain-aelien.livejournal.com]

:) You've been a good writer for a long time, just not a confident one.