Closing Thoughts

I took English 3 winter quarter of freshman year. It was the one requirement that I was really sure about wanting to get out of the way as soon as possible. A horrifying event in my life led to an almost complete dismissal of school, though I stupidly chose to stay enrolled. Two years later, I did a retroactive withdrawal of that quarter. It was as if that quarter never happened. My grades, the classes, etc. While it didn't help with the pain, my GPA (a number now so important to me) was raised a bit . After that though, I was pretty bad about staying on top of my graduation requirements. It has been a combination of my not checking in too often with letters and sciences, [amazing] procrastinating abilities, and overwhelming desire to stay as far away as possible from any class that strives to teach me which side of the paper my name goes on and shockingly, how many paragraphs actually make up a "good" essay. I've been writing a tremendous amount for four years now and am probably not going to want to do so meaninglessly on uninteresting and unimaginative topics.

I'm graduating soon though, realizing that I had to take both the lower and upper division English requirements before I receive my diploma. I reluctantly signed up for UWP 1, I chose it really because I liked the time and the building was pretty close to my apartment. To be perfectly honest, when I first read the syllabus, I was kind of intimidated. I've never written a blog and had always been weary of doing things online as my computer tends to well, suck. On top of that I wasn't sure how interested I'd be in delving into concepts of technology, especially in front of such an audience. I decided to attend class anyway, and I could not be happier that I did.

I don't know how many classes (let alone writting classes) I've enjoyed more than this one. The ubiquitous and seemingly simple subject matter has definitely furthered my ability and desire to look at and question the society in which we live. The class discussions have been wonderful, I thought the diversity of the group really added to them. I've never had an instructor take such interest in what her students had to say. Unlike many courses I've taken here, there were no ideologies imposed on us. We were asked to read further, dig deeper, understand how sociocultural and historical mechanisms are all intertwined. I do feel that my writing has improved over the course of this class, I have made sure to fill in the blanks. Not to present thoughts without really linking them or presenting another question. I've realized that I can always go a bit further, there are so many complex and unanswered questions yet to be explored and quite frankly I cannot wait to deal with them.