My Comp Class

After completing my second semester of Comp, I can honestly say that overall, I have enjoyed myself. I am proud of the work that I put in and feel that my grade best reflects the effort that I have put forth the last four months. One of the most memorable things that I am going to take from this class, is the ability to sprinkle lecture with humor in order to keep your audience’s attention. Because of this technique, I was able to learn so much more than if I would have taken this course over a computer screen or listened to some monotoned man drone on for forty five minutes at the beginning of each day. Although I don’t normally like poetry, I was able to really dig into our major paper and feel that I have such a better understanding of poetry than what I did in the past. Our final paper on film taught me that I really enjoy films that I never would have otherwise watched and to be more open to learning new things.
At the beginning of the year, I was afraid of what I thought Comp was going to be like. I expected long, boring lectures and papers over topics that I couldn’t possibly begin to understand. There was also some worry about how hard of a teacher I was going to have and how hard the assignments were going to be. I didn’t think that I could do it honestly. But after …show more content…
This proved to be one of the more challenging papers that I have done in Comp. It wasn’t that I didn’t understand it, I just hate sounding like I am repeating myself just to meet page requirements and don’t want to fill my paper with useless information. Although it was hard, I still believe that I did a good job of showing a stereotype in film that has not otherwise been mentioned. I enjoyed the films we watched in class very much. They were interesting and out of the ordinary. I definitely would not have picked them myself, and that is one of the biggest things that I have learned; branch out and try new things because you never know what you’ll