Wow. What can I say? Here I was back in August thinking I'm not good at writing, obviously why am I in this class, this is gonna be so hard for me. Then here I am in December, thinking wow, look at what I can now do and what I've accomplished. So many of my friends in high school ask how I'm doing in college and how it is. I honestly wouldn't have thought I would've been sitting here telling my friends and family that I have an 88% in my English 091 class.
My approaches to writing was very low. I was so horrible at writing in high school and I knew I why I scored below on the placement test. For my senior paper, I wrote about the themes in Harry Potter series. I thought it was gonna be easy: I've seen every movie ever made 20 times and read every book at least 50. Yet, when I was looking for specific details, it was difficult for me to explain: the same obstacle I had in this class and still do. But I've learned how to express my thoughts and made it a bit easier on my part as a writer.
If there is anything I would do differently in this class, I would've taken the connect lessons more seriously. Honestly, those things were a pain in the ass, especially if you forgot until the day of to do them, but they had a lot of good lessons that make you a better writer. Also, I would've taken a lot more notes on the essays. We would've had the discussion over the next topic or type of paragraph we were doing whether it was examplification, definition (my personal favorite), cause effect or compare contrast. Honestly, the general learning of how to write the paper was easy: it was finding the interesting details to go with the topic. When we had the pictures or videos we had to watch, those were literally life savers for me. I would've been lost without those resources. Now I wish I used those resources a bit more.
Honestly, I believed I preformed pretty good in the class for having low standards. I mean I'm passing with an 88. I'm pretty stoked about that! I've never had such high scores on my essay's before even in high school. My highest scores on my papers were 85's and I was OK with that. Now, I'm estatic I'm almost at an A with finals around the corner. I feel awesome for finishing out the semester with this high grade.
Now that I am no longer a "new" freshmen in college, I'm pretty confident in what I have planned in the future. I'm one step closer to what I deserve in life.
