Symptoms

Is it a bad sign that I have become such an editor—such a critic—that I even want to revise my professors’ notes?

As I sit here studying (or attempting to study) for my 100-level BCS Development of Brain and Mind course, I am coming up with all sorts of ways that the notes could have been more logically rearranged. I never questioned the ways in which professors organized their material before, but as I try to make connections between the various portions of my notes so that I somehow remember them for the test, I find myself thinking, “If only they had put things together this way….”

I am freelance editing a peer’s book at least seven hours-a-week. I “edit” at Writing Fellows at least twice a week. I am constantly editing my own Honors Thesis work. I think I am becoming obsessed.