I remember turning in a rather embarrassing paper in college because I wrote it from beginning to end on my computer, instead of writing the first draft longhan

I remember turning in a rather embarrassing paper in college because I wrote it from beginning to end on my computer, instead of writing the first draft longhand, as I had always done previously. (Okay, full disclosure: I wrote it through the night before the day it was due. But that wasn't anything I hadn't done before.) I'm older than the "digital natives." I was born in 1967 and went back to college as an adult. This story I'm telling happened in the late '90s. But, in retrospect, I really felt my typing speed was faster than my thinking speed. Pencil-to-paper is a much slower process and seemed better suited to wrestling with complicated thoughts. I would say I've since adapted and can write first drafts at the keyboard. (I'd say I adapted before I got out of college.) But longhand still seems more intimately connected to my brain.