I'm in my 3rd year of Russian and the professor started making us write in cursive this year. But I didn't learn cursive because I didn't take Russian at the University like all the other students did, and my teacher in high school... well, she wasn't a very good teacher. It's so frustrating because it takes me so long to draw it out. I used to spend almost twice as much time on the tests because I didn't know cursive. I can't stand cursive writing. The old professor got fired, so now we have a new one who lets me get away with printing. Thank god!