Freewriting on cloning (student writer)

Cloning is at the forefront of science in the 21st century, but something about cloning makes my skin crawl . . . animals have been cloned effectively (that sheep Dolly), but how would the process differ in humans — isn’t part of being human all the experiences we have and the things that we learn . . . a cloned human would not have the memories of the original person, so it would not really be the same person at all, which is what makes cloning so creepy. . . imagine if someone cloned your best friend and you met the clone randomly, thinking it was your friend, and then the clone would not know any of the inside jokes or experiences you’d shared, and it would feel like something out of a bad science fiction movie or an episode of The Twlight Zone, where you don’t understand what’s happened because this person looks just like your friend but you don’t know them and you don’t know what to write next but your keep going and going and wonder if scientists really want to clone entire people, or do they use cloning mostly for research and cloning organs for use on medical patients?

Focused freewriting on college debt (student writer)

I wonder how many trees are killed for paper offers of pre-approved credit cards for college students. I get a new offer daily from a credit card company that wants to give me a card, but I don’t understand how a college student can be pre-approved when s/he has no credit history—I suppose that’s the trap: the company offers you a low or no-interest credit card with low monthly minimum payments so you can build some credit and they give you an absurdly high limit to encourage you to spend all the money you don’t have then they yank the carpet out from under you when your rates skyrocket after six months . . . and you’re a poor recent college graduate with no means of paying off the bills, and then you have to borrow money to pay off these debts but that just leaves you with more debt (haven’t there been some students who committed suicide because they owed so many companies so much money and had no way to pay?) and all of this means that your newfound credit history is doomed from day one unless you actually read the fine print and can avoid getting addicted to your new plastic friend, which most college students can’t do.

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