Beginning of the End:
1) English 15 Seminar; my very first college class. August
27th, set my alarm super early so I could shower, get ready in my
preplanned outfit, and have even more time to navigate my way through Penn
State’s enormous campus (with an even bigger map, making it obvious that I am
indeed a freshman). That day was sunny, perfect, and the air just rang with the
pending excitement of the start of something new. Stepping into Willard for the
first time, I expected I would be stepping into a big auditorium where class
would take place with a couple hundred other undergrads. I had been warned
about how big Penn State
As the year progressed, I found out that this English class
was by far, not only my first, but also my favorite college class this
semester. This is due to many reasons, the first of which being it was my
smallest class. All of my other classes confirmed my previous fears of huge
lecture halls. Another reason is my all of a sudden liking towards writing. I
blame all of the blogging. When we were informed that our biggest project in
the class would be to make a blog and write in it occasionally, I have to admit
that I wasn’t too enthused. In the past, I had always dreaded writing essays
and I never even really understood the concept of blogging. I always thought
that bloggers were either just angry people venting or a place for moms to
trade recipes. This class changed my past opinions entirely. I learned that
could indeed be for normal people talking about their adventures. And we did go
on many adventures in this English class, such as a trip to an arboretum, and
art museum and even a university run play. Not any ordinary English class that I
had experienced in the past. The only catch was that we had to blog about our
adventures. At first, I was a little hesitant, merely because I disliked
writing anything in general, but our blog project changed that. I learned that
writing for enjoyment was much better than the essays from high school. Instead
of sitting down, trying to write about some obscure subject that in no way
relates to you at all, I got to sit down and actually write about my day. Such
a nice change. From this I learned that writing can actually be enjoyable.
Blogging for me was just like telling somebody about my day and then writing it
all down. Easy Peasy. That, to me was the most important thing I got from this
English 15 class; a newly found enjoyment in writing.
3) Ms. S, I filled out the SRTEs! J
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