When I first applied for this class, I thought it was just going to be a class where you just write about boring articles and gain nothing out of it. But boy I was wrong the teacher was very social and you could tell by the jokes now and than trying to break the ice with us first year college students. I’m a good writer but I could always learn more on how to write and to bring my thoughts together. With the writing exercise he does everyday it actually helped me with my few problems on thinking of what to write about. Over time in this class my thoughts got better because of the ten-minute exercises he makes us do everyday and this exercise also helps with my shyness now I could talk in class without too much thought of it.

Because of this class I also made friends that I could actually count on to help me through the college years. Without my friends I’m pretty sure I would be struggling throughout this year and I owe it to this class because about 80% of my social circle is from this class. But for the assignments that the professor gave it made me look into myself seeing what made me be me. For instance, the first major essay which was I believe about the personal artifact made me go into deep thought. After high school I lost my passion for doing my work because I didn’t know what goal I was striving for, yeah, I was trying to go for my degree but what’s a degree without a path? I was in my room looking around just trying to see what was important to me and that’s when I saw the award I received when I graduated high school.

The thought process was filling me with memories from my past and how much that award or artifact meant to me, and with this information I wrote the essay but when I was going to revise it it showed how much I lacked grammar and punctuation and till this day I still have problems with those same credentials. Not to mention before this class my last English class was about 6 months prior to this class so my writing knowledge wasn’t in its prime. I had to remember the writing elements over again but it came back quicker than I thought. Because of this essay it helped me do better progressively in my other classes my thought process got way better. This class helped break the ice in my laziness and helped me get into the flow and I was back on my grind because of it.

The next essay was about interviewing your peer about their subculture and when I heard this, I wasn’t happy about it. Yeah, I’m a social person but at the same time in not if that makes sense. I rather do work where I could depend on my self and not someone else you know I’m still like this actually. I don’t like group work because when I was growing up, I was the one to always do all the work but that’s another story point blank I had to do what I had to do to secure the grade. So, my partner was Sherzod and we was on video call asking questions for our papers and it made me realize its not just my journey in life but everyone has their own journey they go on. Every single person has a story to tell because everyone has obstacles to overcome and sometimes you might have similarities with people you think are the totally opposite. This paper personally showed me its not just me in this world and to also be more open to people because you never know who you relate to in the room and you might need each other help someday. So, with him I had to listen to his words and ideas and he had to listen to mine.

With all the knowledge I gained in this class finally the final assignment came to test my experience in writing and let me tell you it was a rollercoaster. First, I was confused on what I was even writing about and when I found it it was just an informative essay it still was hard to put my ideas on the paper. I’m the type of person that writes a lot of argumentative essay and I argue myself a lot, so when I was writing the essay, I accidentally kept on arguing and I had to redo some paragraphs. When I had to think of the topic for my paper, I was thinking about the most current ideal I dealt with and the ideal of vegetarians came to my mind. And personally, I was curious of the conversion to being vegetarian.

In the essay the main question I was trying to answer was is the main factor of turning vegetarian animal cruelty? And from my findings it basically was because of how people felt animals were being treated they converted to being vegetarian. But founding information was a little difficult because it had to have 2 different types of information. Popular media which is information for the general public so everyone can understand and peer advised which consist of more crucial information which only certain groups can easily understand the information. Gathering the ides was the easy part but the putting on paper and making 6 pages out of it was the hard part but with the determination of finishing my final paper and long nights I finally completed it.

I believe after the paper was done I could have done better, don’t get me wrong I tried my best on the paper but because of the situation of 10 hours everyday of work because I’m an essential worker and mostly everyone else called out I was tired from the day. But I still went and did my best on the paper it was hard to get revised because over the internet its actually hard I’m a hand on person on learning. I probably believe my downfall on the paper is mostly punctuation and grammar as usual.

This class is what actually helped me do better in the whole semester without this class I probably wouldn’t have done as good in my other classes. This class helped me be more social and gather my thoughts better even if the essays got in the way of my other work. Everyone has that one class that helps them build as a person and this class was my class. I actually looked forward to this class during the week the welcoming atmosphere and calming attitude everyone gave off helped me as a person. This class is amazing and I would recommend it to everyone to take it even if it’s a required class and eventually everyone would take it.