So, I am following a chinese course in the University which requires us to learn how to write simplified...
I did RTH, but when picking sentences I tend to review with traditional characters in the question, and simplified and pinyin in the answer...
So I'd learn to read hanzi but not write, therefore I have no stories for traditional characters and am more likely to mix up/forget some?

but these days there's no real "need" to learn how to write, since everything is digital and I have not much ambition to brag either.

but the question is: will it come with other discomforts besides the ones I am seeing? has anyone did/doing the same thing?
Thanks for all your input!

-Mesqueeb

Hi,
I also learned to write simplified characters (no choice not to learn them in a course :-( ) and teached myself only to read traditional characters (unfortunately without RTH, because I didn't know this method back then, but using the etymology feature on yellowbridge.com and zhongwen.com to make my own mnemonics...)
Today I'm only able to write the simplified characters and only some few traditional characters. But I have no problems reading traditional character texts.
Since I don't attend any chinese course (I'm my own teacher), I started to learn to write traditional characters, because it's easier to remember the simplified version of any character by "just looking on it" when you have already learnt the traditional version.
And I think there won't be any discomforts, just do it the way you do now.
And if you have the option to learn traditional instead of simplified characters do it.
some pro-/con- arguments for simplified/traditional charaters:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate_on_t...characters
Traditional character learners have no problems reading simplified characters.

"Traditional character learners have no problems reading simplified characters."

This strikes me as overly optimistic. I studied only traditional characters last summer and am now taking a class with traditional and simplified characters. There are indeed times when I have no clue what a simplified character means, even when I know its traditional meaning. A good example is 讓 versus 让 -- the part on the right is simplified so much that even though I recognize the simplified version of 言 on the left, I have no idea what 上 is doing there.

However, it's definitely the case that starting with traditional and then learning simplified is an easier way to remember both than starting with simplified and learning the traditional.

Hope this helps. I love the beauty and the complexity of traditional characters and I hope you'll consider learning them too.