Our #4 granddaughter, who's attending my alma mater on a full scholarship, is already a Junior after only two semesters (she had 46 AP credits) working on a double major, Chemistry and Math with a minor in Physics. Anyway, she doesn't 'write' anything but prints with a very small hand. We just got a post card from her which contained as much as most people would have used a full letter-sized sheet of paper for. And the printing was impeccable. And she can print even smaller as I've seen some examples. Now, having been an engineer for 49+ years, I never wrote anything in cursive either, except my signature. I started my career before we had computers and printers and you had to write your reports and stuff. Granted, we had 'secretaries' who we would type-up our more formal memos and reports, but anything else that I had to produce which became part of the permanent record was printed free-hand, and that was pretty standard in the engineering world where it was important that written material be unambiguous, not open to being misinterpreted.

Now I've never seen her signature but if it's anything like mine, it's only good for just that, a 'signature', which I've always seen as a sort of the 'mark of a craftsman. Signatures really only need to be 'recognized' (and acknowledged), rather then 'read'.

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