Rock and Roll

In my history of Rock and Roll class, we recently had to write about the extra-musical aspect of a concert. That is, the things that make a concert great, outside the music. It was a very challenging and frustrating piece because we had to generate four pages of material in what seemed to be a one page response. I felt like most of what we wrote was nothing more than space filler. In my opinion, it's better to have two well developed pages, than four garbage pages. Although the assignment was very interesting, and i enjoyed the idea, it was very hard. I felt like i was back in high school trying to write a paper I knew sounded bogus. It starts off great, with lots of good material, but end by repeating the same thing over and over. I think sometimes teachers would rather read a 10 page essay that is bad rather than a shorter on that actually means something. It gets rather frustrating.