IMHO it's still pretty boring, the most practical you might get is entering data into a spreadsheet.
To the OP try doing one essay per week, for English, and handing it in to your teacher, I found it improves you a lot.
That's so true, there's this guy in my English class who believes that his handwriting will cost him getting good marks in his next essay. He told me that he got a bad mark in his last test because of that, but when I read his last test it seemed perfectly legible. So as of now he has applied...