Learning Disabilities and homework

My wife and I have been going to the same college for a few years now. We are taking one class, Humanities 191, together this quarter. It is kind of an introduction to the arts, and what makes us human. In fact, our first assignment was a discussion board entry answering the question of “What makes us human?”

The second assignment was extremely interesting, not for the content of the assignment, but because of the vast differences between our learning and working styles.

The assignment was to look through the first chapter in the text book, find a painting that appealed to us, and describe it. Basically, we just needed to open the book and describe one of the paintings in our own words.

Over the past week, Adriana has been slaving and toiling over her computer, trying to describe what she thought was going on in the painting that she chose. She knew what to write about, but could not figure out how to put her thoughts into coherent writing.

I, on the other hand, could not figure out why she was sweating the assignment. The problem that I have when writing assignments is that I cannot think of what to write about, so this assignment seemed extremely easy. That being the case, I started working on it twenty minutes before it was due.

While my wife slaved for 6 days and barely got her required ¾ page, I worked for about thirty minutes and came up with twice the writing. If you’ve been keeping up with the math though, you’ll notice that I turned in my assignment about ten minutes late!

Something about a tortoise and a hare?