My Reflection Of College Career Students

College career students come across classes that they are forced to take. Whether it’s a gen-ed (general education), a core requirement, or prerequisite for another class. From that many students come to the conclusion that the classes they come across as believed to be a waste of time, regret taking the class , most of the time they either didn’t learn anything. But from taking this course I can honestly say I learned a lot of things that are useful. Writing is a crucial way in one expressing themselves. You can tell one’s understanding of something through writing.
Throughout my life I struggled with voicing my opinion and thoughts. Growing up I was told that I couldn’t say or question someone’s actions. I always had to comply with someone’s …show more content…
I learned that I have a serious problem with grammar. No one ever took the time to tell me that they had a hard time reading my writings because of grammar. Often times when people read my writing they would say I needed to explain the topic more, but never grammar. I also realized that I don’t really explain myself especially in my writings. I’m always under the impression that it’s a waste of time trying to explain something that can be very obvious. Often times I believed that they knew what I was talking about, when in reality they didn’t. For example in my writing I never really write about the setting or how a character looks. I leave it up to the audience to think about how the setting is, like a desert in my first story. As a writer an expectations for the audience was to think about the way a scene or a story is set up for themselves. But from this exercise I learned that setting the scene is essential because it helps the audience understand characters logic. Why did a character decide to do this instead of that route instead of the other …show more content…
The Artist date exercise revealed to me what type of person I am. Through the little incidents that I come across weekly and writing them down, looking back at it and skimming through all my artist dates, I found that I’m a person with very little patience. I retaliate with violent thoughts and at times I can be nice, which is weird. But overall from learning about myself, I realized that my personality including my actions play a huge role in how I express myself. How will I be able to express myself when people can’t understand me? This question echo’s and reappears in my thoughts ever since I’ve been told I gave a serious problem with