Keith Hjortshoj (pronounced "Yort-soy") is an anthropologist by profession, and he's used his skills well to deconstruct the culture of writing at Cornell.  Perhaps what he finds true there is not so in your case.

In your blog, compare one of Hjortshoj's claims (say, about planning, claims, and so on) to your experience as a writer in high school. Then consider what you expect to be different at Richmond about this aspect of writing.

My example: 

In my high-school I very often did one-draft papers and found that my grades were in the B or A range.  Hjortshoj notes how for the scholars he knows, "first drafts will rarely turn out to the be the best or the last" (65).  I expected, as a first-year student at Virginia, to continue my one-draft approach (and on a typewriter, multiple drafts were really a chore!). 

I found out--and quickly--that in most courses I'd get a C on my one-draft efforts. In time, I learned that even in a "Birth of Europe" course I loved, laboring for two weeks over four or five complete drafts led to my only A- in the class. I was delighted with my professor's remark that "I really enjoyed reading this paper."  He'd never bothered to say that before about my work.