This semester has gone by so fast. I still feel like just yesterday I was stressing just thinking about going to college. At the beginning I thought to myself, “oh since it’s online I can just sit back and not talk to anyone.” However throughout our classes I quickly became more comfortable with our class and the discussions we were having. When we went into the breakout rooms everyone was willing to talk and seemed like they wanted to be there unlike in high school where I would speak and no one would answer. I think the main thing that I wanted to work on at the beginning of semester was my writing. The first assignment that we did was the LLN. I was not really confident in my writing but since it was about me and my life I felt like it was way easier to write. Professor Conroy gave me really good feedback on that essay. The main thing that stood out to me was when she said that my voice and tone is strong and unique. After that I really felt more confident in my writing. It made me realize that I don’t have to write in the boring format of writing that made me hate English. It was my favorite to do mainly because I was really happy with how the essay turned out. Reading it back again is sort of like a flashback for me, it brought back many memories. The Discovery Essay was the one I disliked the most only because of the research part of it. I absolutely hated the part where we had to look for research using the CUNY one search because whenever I searched something up I never got what I asked for. I had to scroll through so many pages to find a decent source. Once I got the sources, writing the essay was not that hard. Luckily for me I picked a topic that I wrote about in the past which helped me in some aspects. It was also a topic that connects really well to today’s society which I thought would lead to some good discussions in class. Even before I started the essay I knew what I was going to talk about but for some reason I forgot that we had to have three body paragraphs. That’s when I kind of was lost. Luckily I had a conference with Professor Conroy where she helped me bring up some ideas for what to write in the last body paragraph. I liked the MCP because it was something different, it wasn’t just writing an essay. When I found out about the project in class ideas automatically just came flying in. I knew exactly what I wanted to draw but I had no idea how to draw it if that makes sense. I drew a picture and created a brochure for this project. The drawing portion wasn’t too bad. I just turned on some music and tried drawing. Unfortunately that got me nowhere so I got like five images from google and took a piece for each and made it my own. Overall I think I improved on the goals that I set for myself at the beginning of the semester. I also gained more confidence which I did not set as a goal.

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