Author: Minhaj

Minhaj Uddin

African Folklore

Professor Hall

May 21st, 2019

Reflection

When it comes to writing for me I feel as if the only way I can express my writing is through my emotions. I feel as if when there is a topic I can relate to or I find it interesting then I will be able to write a well-developed paper. When I write through my emotions I feel as after I finished writing there is like a relief that is taking off my back because some of the work I get assigned I don’t think about, but then I eventually realize that it was a topic that I felt very strongly about. What I feel that I don’t enjoy writing about are when I have to read a passage or an article and then I have to write a summary about what it was about. The honest truth is when I read I get distracted very easily and I have a hard time because I lose focus. I can go on and on while reading and after a while, I would notice that I do not know what is going on in the passage of the article. I feel as if in this class I was given an opportunity to write about very important topics and there were given a variety of options of topics to write about, as for a typical English class the professor would have to follow the curriculum in a certain way that would make the class boring and the students would be sleeping or would have to force themselves to go. It shouldn’t have to be like that, the professor should have to talk and have relatable topics so the students can interact with each other and have topics that they feel that they would want to talk about and the professor is still following the curriculum but she is making her students engage in the class.

I feel as if when I first started writing in the class I wasn’t as engaged in the class as I was towards the end. In the beginning when I started writing about how I changed as a person from going to being a not so well student at the beginning of my high school years to coming to college and having a different mindset and not letting anything come in between me and my education was a major change. I feel as if I realized it the most when I started to write about it. I may not realize how helpful writing is because I do not do as often, but when I do write I like to write about topics that will grab my attention. One of the major reason that I have a hard time writing is that when I hand in an assignment I do not get the grade I feel as if I deserve. That is a major problem in college and English class because there would be many times that I wouldn’t go to sleep because I am writing a paper or I put a lot of feeling and thought in to what I am writing but I still end up getting a grade that I feel that I don’t deserve and that brings down my confidence in writing. I feel as if I am not good enough in that subject.

I feel as if in this class I had enjoyed writing most of the assignments. One of the assignments that I have enjoyed was the first unit essay because I got to say a lot in my writing and I felt as if I didn’t want to stop. The passion for writing to me is when I get to write about a story in my life that I lived through or I witnessed. When I am able to write about that I feel as if I will write with a lot of feeling and passion. In that essay, I was able to do so and I was given a grade that wasn’t the best but I can live with it. There were many other units in the class that was very interesting but this is the one that I felt as if it stood out to me and many people in the class have read it and gave back well-deserved feedback that I felt that I deserved. They had also given me feedback on how I can make my writing better and I enjoy that a lot because I know I am not a perfect writer but a good writer always has room for improvement.

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Minhaj Uddin

Professor Hall

English 1121

January 18, 2019

I feel that the problem is always taking test because many people may not be the best test takers in the world. There are many people in the world that are very smart at doing what they do but when they take a test they fail there test because they are not great test takers. Many people study for there test but when it comes time for the test they end up forgetting what they study for. Many people end up getting nervous and then fail. I feel that it is the wrong thing to do because some of the test we take basically some up everything we learned such as the SAT because if you don’t get a good grade on that then you wouldn’t get into a good college even if u did good in your classes in high school.

The way I feel that can be fixed is if they made tests a smaller percentage and they evened everything out, so your homework percentage goes up and your project percentage go up as well. Even if they make you do a really big project as well to because doing a project over time it wouldn’t be as bad because you can research and you can take your time and doing a project at home it wouldn’t be that much stress as taking a test. That gives you a better option and a better learning because when you do a project you would have to read and then write or do what is need to be done for the project.

Minhaj Uddin

Professor Hall

English 1121

February 13th, 2019

                                                                Inspiration

When I was really young I use to have a passion for cars. Thats all I played with and what I always wanted and if I didn’t have my toy cars with me all I would do is cry. I would have all kinds of cars little ones and big ones. My dad actually got me this car that I could ride around the park but it was fun while it lasted until the battery got messed up and that meant that I would have to buy a new one, but it was alright because I was getting to big to fit in it anyways.

When I got a little bit older at like the age of 12 I would actually study cars. I would search up cars and see which ones were faster than the others and I would use up all my time research what car I want when I get older.

Thats where school comes into place because I wasn’t the best in school. I would always fool around in school when I was young. I wouldn’t listen to the teachers and I would do what would only please me and benefit me, but little did I know that all they were trying to do was help me and make me successful enough to get the car that I wanted when I was older. My parents played a major role in my understanding for me to do better in school. My mom would always tell me that when I finish college with my bachelors degree she would by me a car and I feel as if that keeps me going in school. 

When I went to high school I forgot about all of that. I went into high school saying that I was going to pick up my act and do better and make everyone around me proud and not let them down, but what did I do I let them down again. At that time I was even worse. I would go to school but I would cut my classes. Thought that was the cooler thing to do. I made a lot of friends thinking that what they were doing was benefiting me. I would go to class sometimes and I would barely pass my classes. Hanging out with those kids might have been one of my mistakes that I made in high school and I feel was a major role into why I wasn’t succeeding in life. As I went into my senior year of high school my guidance consular told me that if I didn’t pick my act up I would graduate high school and that had to be one of the worst things someone could have ever told me and that is when I really realized that I had to pick my act because I wasn’t going to let my family down.

I feel that the reason that I am continuing with everything in my life is because of my mother. She is one person that has always had faith in me and no matter what I did wrong she would scold at me but would never give up on me. She knows and believes in me to become something successful in life. I still till this day cant thank her enough for doing what she does for me and being by my side. That is why I will always promise my self that I will never let the number one woman in my heart down.

As I entered college I came in with a whole different mind set. I have left all my bad habits behind and I was ready to work and become successful. When I came to college and I started my first semester and I entered my first class because it was kind of hard for me to get rid of my habits. I found it hard for me to learn without getting distracted. I find myself getting distracted very easily like when my phone vibrates of buzzes I would look at it and text back whoever texted for a while and then I would look up and I was lost. That affected me pretty hard in math. That was a subject that if you didn’t pay attention or you were lost it was hard to get back on track with the class and it would tend to happen to me a lot. It took me a while but I ended up getting rid of the habit but at the end of the I feel that it was about time that I got back on track and I feel as if I am mature now and the way I think is also mature. You should work hard and leave the past in the past and just keep growing as a person and you will become successful. Then maybe I will get my dream car.