<p>Whenever school starts up again, my handwriting is so crappy. Like it takes a good month or so for me to adjust to legible handwriting.</p>
<p>Yes.
(I also tend to put my head down on the desk when I’m writing, so my writing looks good from the side and bad from the top.)</p>
<p>I shift the paper sideways, because I can’t write looking at the paper straight down, so I’m technically writing diagonally up rather than left to right.</p>
<p>It’s never legible. My biggest struggle for getting used to school writing is getting used to heading my papers. I always put my name, the date, the block, and the teacher’s last name in the upper right hand side of every paper, so I have to get back to being used to knowing the date. And I ALWAYS forget to write the new year after Christmas break.</p>
<p>@SusieAnne </p>
<p>Haha, I’m OCD about my heading too.</p>
<p>my88keys
Teacher
Class/Period
Date</p>
<p>At the top left hand corner, every time.</p>
<p>I’ll actually make my teacher stand there and wait if I don’t have it headed properly. Of course, then I always am happy I did it when I’m trying to put the papers into a big binder for the whole subject, since I can check the date to make sure I’m putting it in the right place.</p>
<p>Haha… I love organizing. I label all of my binders and planner and all my dividers in my binder. I actually have my planner color coded, for how far away assignments are due.</p>
<p>Oh my god, yes, I have the problem of changing handwriting. My handwriting is apparently too small to be legible so it never “reverts back” to “normal handwriting”</p>
<p>I used to write really, really small, but I broke the habit, now I write obnoxiously large. There is no in between. I am living with a constant internal struggle.</p>
<p>Well, my handwriting is really horrible and barely legible. I mean it’s not that bad, but I write in cursive and it just doesn’t “flow”. It’s sort of cramped and jagged. I don’t know. It’s improved over the years, but there’s no way it could be called good.</p>
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<p>^This is actually the exact same heading that I always use :O</p>
<p>And yup, my handwriting is always super sloppy and feels really awkward/slow for the first little bit.</p>
<p>I am quite the opposite. At the beginning of the year, my handwriting is pretty nice and legible. Then, around November, it starts to suffer. Because I stop trying.</p>
<p>Oh, and as for paper headings, if it isn’t a worksheet and is just on loose leaf paper, I always put:</p>
<p>Name
Class/Period
Date</p>
<p>I only put the teacher’s name on things I type.</p>
<p>Oh…and it is so hard for me to decide between writing with a mechanical pencil or pen. (Both have to have a .5mm tip…) I typically use a pencil in math/work-based science (Chem, Physics) and a pen in anything else.</p>
<p>I often begin a debate tournament with the penmanship of a first grader and finish the weekend with handwritten notes that look typed.</p>
<p>My Calculus teacher said that I made cursive math a thing, so I’m assuming I don’t have very good hand writing.</p>
<p>My handwriting is always crappy. I take notes in class, and when I come home, I can’t read half of it. It’s really bad when I’m trying to explain to my teacher how I solved a math problem, and we can’t tell the differences between 1 and 7, 3 and 5, 4 and 9, and 2 and z.</p>
<p>^ That awkward moment when your 8 is confused for a 7.</p>
<p>As a guy, my handwriting will always be terrible and jagged, no matter what day of the year.</p>
<p>My handwriting is back to normal now (1 week into school). But it was rough those first couple days…</p>
<p>Also… how in the world can people put the heading in the upper LEFT corner? That’s fine for a typed paper, but so not right for notebook paper! That’s where the freaking hole is, so the heading belongs on the upper RIGHT corner.</p>
<p>I’ve always had sloppy handwriting so it’s a year long thing for me!</p>
<p>I write so insanely small that teachers ask me to write larger because they can’t see what I write. </p>
<p>It’s neat, just tiny. At the beginning of the year I always have to learn to write larger rather than neater.</p>