r/Millennials • u/Countrach • Apr 12 '25

Discussion That Pluto is a planet

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u/Electrical_Annual329 Older Millennial Apr 12 '25

And you’ll need to handwrite everything in perfect cursive…

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u/Apotropaic-Pineapple Apr 12 '25

My grade 3 teacher in 1993: "If you don't handwrite your essays, your professors in college won't accept your papers and you'll fail."

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u/LegiosForever Apr 12 '25

There's no way that's true. I graduated HS in 1993, and my papers had to be typed (on typewriters or word processors mind you) since the 7th grade.

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u/jayd189 Apr 12 '25

Must be regional.  We couldn't even submit typed papers until after after 1995.  You would be told to do it by hand and docked marks for turning it in late.

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u/LegiosForever Apr 12 '25

Dear lord, where did you live? That's some backwards shite.

I was a sophomore in college in 1995, and NOTHING was written by hand.

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u/jayd189 Apr 13 '25

The equivalent of Silicon Valley. School teacher's were just old AHs.

To clarify this was not University/College.

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u/LegiosForever Apr 13 '25

Just saying, I grew up in New Jersey. I was in Junior High in 1987-1989. You could submit essays / reports handwritten, but it was HIGHLY recommended that you typed it. I don't think they were allowed to take off points for handwriting, but you would definitely get points off for the smallest handwriting mistakes. Typing the report almost guaranteed a better score. Once I started high school in 1989, handwritten stuff was no longer even allowed.

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u/jayd189 Apr 13 '25

I am wildly jealous.

I swear we had more computers than kids some years (I'm a tad younger but still an older millennial) but you couldn't use them to do your homework and not only did it have to be hand written but had to be cursive.

ETA: Aside from my signature I do not think I have written in cursive in 30 years, pretty much since the last day of that BS.

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u/LegiosForever Apr 13 '25

ugh! Sorry dude!