Author: Brian Brown (Page 1 of 8)

Beginning with the first week of English class thinking it would be just like any other English class. A mindset like this and approaching a college atmosphere it was a bad way to start looking into from now. Also, accepting and knowing I procrastinate a lot it made me elevate my self to do better this year forward. Our first Unit assignment was to make a personal essays based on your view on the educational system. This really intrigued me because my thoughts about school were so profound it felt like so easy to write about. Writing the essay I spoke about me skipping a grade, how school felt irrelevant to how I wanted my life to be, the good and bad expierences in high school, as well as stating school is a place for kids to go through to get to whatever they want to do in life. Writing sections of my story the feedback from my professor it made me understand how to structure my writing and grammar better. With this I took into consideration and wrote my story called Be Enlightened telling a story of who I am. When officially done with this assignment this made me feel like I went to a next level. We had peer review in class so I partnered up and got feedback from two people in my class and both said it was a good, however the same feedback from my teacher they said as well organize my work better. A line I said was “When students genuinely enjoy the learning process, they are more likely to be motivated, attend class eagerly, and activately participate making the classroom a place they want to be” with this it was intended to encourage the teachers to make school more engaging to what I wish it could for all students. Besides the Unit assignments there were reading assignments that we annotate and have a discussion about next class. These readings led to different parts of your Unit assignments. One of the stories we read was Later by James Surowiecki and this story basically about procrastination helping me understand myself better. I’ve gained insight on how to deal with procrastination and writing what I’ve learned from it that is people know what’s right and still do the thing that seems “worth doing” and with that it could lead to what needs to be done is now setting you back. This can be a cycle and still battling it I want to break this cycle.

Next is our Unit 2 assignment it was to make an Research Annotated Bibliography this was something I never did before and approaching it with creativity I felt good about it, however that’s not even the case. Thinking of a question to reasearch about left me to overthinking and when that happens I scramble in my mind causing me to stress. When talking in class about the assignment I start chatting with one of my peers asking what he feels about drugs he encourage me to go for it so I did. Now the question came quick to me due to how think of this world we in and how stubborn people can be it formulated the question Why do people take drugs knowing it’s bad for them? Knowing the audience I wanted to attain are people who are curious of taking drugs and want more information that can guide their decision to take them or not. In my conclusion, a statement that I feel is important is “I’ve learned that this world is more attentive to wrong things instead of the things that are really important”. I highlight this because as a person who is very in tune with themselves this world has a lot of distractions keeping us humans back and you wonder from what greatness with God. Completing this assignment I was confident that I did good for my first time, but that wasn’t even the case. I got a D- due to my analysis not meeting the requirements and the citations were wrong.

Last but not least Unit 3 is a project that’s based on your decision. You have to pick the genre you want to connect with your research question. And I’ve chose to do a blog for my topic which is Drugs that have an affect on people good or bad. This was a new thing for me and it let explore my creativity,  which was the best route to play. I’ve decide to make a survey and have a QR code for people to scan. The survey consist of questions getting to know each individual, which gives me data to collect what age is predominately using and why they’ve chose the drug. The blog title is Students find their Escape because my intended audience is high school and college students mostly, but can still relate to those who do drugs or curious of taking them. “So, personally, I wouldn’t recommend doing drugs because there are other things in life that can make you happy without relying on drugs for that so-called “happiness” you’re looking for”. I said this in my blog and is important because even I know drugs is just a temporary get away from own doings. However, I can’t control a person just give good advice and hope the individual reading the blog is takings drugs on their own hand.

Saying farewell to myself going through this course that made me a better writer and reader. Ms.Wang is a great teacher glad to have her as my freshman professor thank you.