What's the point?

Well I've been quiet for a week or so whilst I struggled to get my latest MA assignment done - 4000 words on the Old Testament and poverty.  It went in yesterday but today I have been struck by so many things I would like to have included.  There are no second chances.  I can't go back and write into my essay the things I've seen and heard and realised today but then I guess that is the point.  This essay, all my essays are not intended to be simply an academic exercise for my classmates and I - they are meant to help change the way we think, the way we grapple with scripture, the way we interact with the world, as we prepare for ordination.    At the end of every module I am supposed to fill in a module review that says what I have learned from my studies, but what I learned doesn't fit neatly in the box! 

I hope my assignment makes the grade, but today I feel, whether it does or not, perhaps it has achieved its objective.