I
have always found writing to be the best way for me to express myself. When my emotions are at a high or low I
find comfort in setting the words in my head down. I don’t write every day, only when whatever is going on in
my life is too much for me to handle.
It allows me to relax, assess the situation, and be honest with
myself. English 15S taught me a
lot about my style of writing and myself.
Before
this class I have never really had to write about my interests or myself. High school writing was more analytical
essays and research papers. Since
I had been doing those for so long and I did pretty well on them I thought this
class would be easy. I found that
writing in an analytical manner for so long caused me to struggle when I had to
write about myself. I realized
this back when I was writing my college essay; it was just hard to write about
myself because every time I wrote an essay it was about a book. This class helped me to integrate my
skills of writing analytically into writing about myself. When I write a research paper or an
essay on a book I have my thesis and then just make those points and support
them with quotes. I learned how to
make a thesis and make my points in a less formal approach.
I
learned that I actually like writing about myself. The memoir was my favorite assignment because it really made
me feel like a writer. I had to
choose my style of writing, create a voice, and I was writing about my life so
I was of course interested in it. I
never thought I’d like writing so much about my interests and myself but it has
really taught me that writing is something I love to do. I read a lot of different blogs, mostly
satirical ones, and I always wished I could do that. The blog posts we got to write allowed me to do that! I started to find my voice as a writer
and found that I like to be a bit satirical and humorous.
There was one moment during peer
review for the memoir when Sheila helped me learn something about myself. I was telling my story to Lucas and
mentioned how the story is funny but at the time was horrible for me. Sheila overheard and said, “You do that
don’t you? Do you look back on the
past and take it with a sense of humor?”
Honestly, I had never thought about that until she said it and I found it
to be true. Yes I’ve had my fair
share of problems in the past and I realized that when I talk about them and
look back on them I do it with a sense of humor. I loved that I learned this about myself because it helped
me find my voice for the memoir as well as my other writing.
This
class has taught me that art is everywhere and anything we want it to be. Everything we did was about a piece of
art. One of the more interesting
art forms that I had not noticed to be art before was the podcast we listened
to. This was one of my favorite
assignments because it taught me a lot about Penn State and also about
podcasts. I loved learning about
how there were different acts within it and how the way they set up was
strategic because it reminded me of how I write essays: I have my thesis, make
my points in a logical order, and conclude it.
My
eyes have been open to a world of art thanks to this class. Art really is everywhere we go and
everything we do is some form of art.
I’ve discovered so much about the type of art I like, Penn State, and
myself from this class. I started
this class thinking writing for a class was all about research papers and
analytical essays and I learned that’s not what it’s all about. This class gave us freedom to write
about what we wanted to in a voice we wanted to and through that I discovered
things I liked and more about who I am as a writer.
This post needed a picture so here's me jumping out of a plane.
And here's a box of puppies.
Hi Ms. S! I
completed my SRTEs! YAY!
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