remember sitting in a history class in college. It was the day a major term paper was due. Like the vast majority of the class, I had been up very late into the previous night finishing the paper. As the professor gathered up the papers, he said with a smirk, “You know there will be a day when you will want to write a paper just so you can learn something new.” The entire class laughed at that, and I joined a lot of my peers in dismissing the comment as insanity.  It turns out that Dr. Gahan should get the last laugh, because he was right.  At this point it has been over a decade since I graduated seminary and had to write a formal paper.  That many years removed I can see the appeal, because writing a paper is an unique way of learning that is unlike anything else. The desire to write a paper is really just the desire to learn something new.

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