This would have been my sophomore year in high school, and yes, most of the time it was a blow-off class with plenty of time to write, read, or work on homework. I remember that we watched a lot of movies in that class, so I half paid attention to the movie and half focused on other things. Writing almost everything by hand was more out of necessity than by choice. I also used to like to draw things from the books, although I’m not a good artist. If I could trace something, like horses, I d...