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School is just starting. You have new clothes, good friends, and you’ve had the entire summer to relax and enjoy life. You’re refreshed, you’re eager to learn, and perhaps some of you are even more eager to move on to your professional careers.

Then it happens. Five essays due in one week. Tests, quizzes, homework, and unbearable stress. We’ve all had to deal with it, and often we’ve wondered why in the world we have to write and write and write when we are probably never going to remember the significance of that Walt Whitman poem. But writing presents so many incalculable rewards. Often, we do not even realize it.

Although global warming is featured prominently within the news, an article featured on CNN about sea ice loss on September 7, 2007 extracted some emotional reflections on the issue.