My article

Jamal:
I'm always amazed at how terrible my writing appears to me when I see it years later. The problem I had during my nascent writing career at the Indiana Daily Student is that I wrote as though I were having a conversation, and didn't bother to wrap things up neatly, or even string a coherent theme from the beginning to the end of the thing. Back then, I didn't even read my stuff a second time. The ideas are still valid, and I guess that's all you can hope to turn out when you're as inexperienced as I was.