Short Story Writing

I've never procrastinated for a class as much as I procrastinate for this one. Grrrrrr. I have to write a monologue, due tomorrow. It has to be three pages long and interspersed with "telling" descriptions. This class is so ridiculous. I feel like all of our assignments and meetings for that matter are such a creative writing college stereotype. In our meeting last week, everyone was mentioning Joyce and Faulkner, and all the cool books they've read and been influenced by. Gag. Why is James Joyce such a romantic figure to creative writers in college? I think the most important thing I ever learned or probably will learn in this whole UW creative writing program is from my writing class last year, when the prof. on the second day told us to "Mean Less." I think it's made all the difference to me.