Throughout my first semester of college level English, there were various pieces of writing that I had to develop. A large range of them were opinionated, which is something I am not used to. In high school, teachers would tell the students exactly what type of essay to write and how to write it. High school papers were extremely concise in a way that a student was not allowed to think too far out of the box; ideas were stifled. This semester I was able to write essays on topics that I could relate to. Some topics included the Black Experience, which is something that every black person has to go through. Other topics involved our opinions on the memoir, The Beautiful Struggle, that the class had to read. At certain points, the class had to
