I've had many bad experiences with English classes, but one thing that is designated to hurt a student's brain is when the teacher assigns a general essay topic. I absolutely detest it when I cannot think of a topic to write about. It is always frustrating when the teacher assigns a very general, broad essay topic. The task is to take that general topic and turn it into a descriptive, well-written essay. Teachers say they purposely assign a general topic because they want the students to use their imaginations. How can they expect the students to be imaginative when we have been through hours of sitting in classrooms, trying to absorb as much information as possible that the teachers throw at us? Some of the students may have pulled all-nighters the night before to study for the most important exam of their lives. To ask those students to be creative on twenty-one cups of coffee is like torture. Is it the teacher's goal to further make the students suffer? I doubt that is one of their top priorities. If the teachers assign a more specific topic, it would save both the students' and the teachers' time. The students wouldn't have to spend hours trying to come up with a creative topic other than "What I Did During the Summer." They wouldn't have to spend hours trying to come up with a topic that would interest and entertain their teachers. As for the teachers, if they assigned a less broad topic, it would save them time as well. They wouldn't have to read boring essays about the students' summers of how they did absolutely nothing other than sitting at home to watch the television. When will teachers finally understand that all of the students' creative brain cells have stopped working after the existence of the education system was created?