Over the course of this year, I’ve learned a lot about the english language and writing as well as myself. I’ve found that, though I’m fairly fair minded and autonomous, I often have trouble persevering when things get hard or my ideas aren’t understood. Much like how they affect the three miles in a 5k cross country race, these intellectual virtues and weaknesses dictated how I performed in AP Comp this year.
Mile one of a race is usually an adrenaline filled blur, where you try to keep your balance amongst a sea of running girls while grabbing a favorable spot on the course without sacrificing your energy for the last two miles. So, you need to be fair minded. You must be aware of your surroundings and pace, and understand that the way you …show more content…
Similar to pacing yourself in a race, I paced myself in AP Comp. I was aware that what I thought wasn’t always correct, and prided myself in being able to understand other’s ideas and interpretations of texts or discussion questions. I was never one to dominate a socratic seminar discussion, nor withdraw, because when the gun goes off, you can’t start out at a jog. My purposeful lack of bias allowed for me to have “a consciousness of the need to treat all viewpoints alike, without reference to [my] own feelings”. (VIV) This virtue helped me throughout the entire year, especially in the race socratic seminar in the first semester. While this unit taught me a lot and prompted me to think about things I didn’t usually consider, I knew that I didn’t have as much to say on the topic as some people who actually have to deal with racism in their lives. As a white person, I was fair minded in that discussion because I knew what I wanted to say, but was aware that what I had to say wasn’t necessarily as relevant or accurate as other people’s points. For example, one of the popular questions in the socratic seminar was “In your own words, what is privilege?”. While I felt I could answer this question simply with the quote “system of
Mile one of a race is usually an adrenaline filled blur, where you try to keep your balance amongst a sea of running girls while grabbing a favorable spot on the course without sacrificing your energy for the last two miles. So, you need to be fair minded. You must be aware of your surroundings and pace, and understand that the way you …show more content…
Similar to pacing yourself in a race, I paced myself in AP Comp. I was aware that what I thought wasn’t always correct, and prided myself in being able to understand other’s ideas and interpretations of texts or discussion questions. I was never one to dominate a socratic seminar discussion, nor withdraw, because when the gun goes off, you can’t start out at a jog. My purposeful lack of bias allowed for me to have “a consciousness of the need to treat all viewpoints alike, without reference to [my] own feelings”. (VIV) This virtue helped me throughout the entire year, especially in the race socratic seminar in the first semester. While this unit taught me a lot and prompted me to think about things I didn’t usually consider, I knew that I didn’t have as much to say on the topic as some people who actually have to deal with racism in their lives. As a white person, I was fair minded in that discussion because I knew what I wanted to say, but was aware that what I had to say wasn’t necessarily as relevant or accurate as other people’s points. For example, one of the popular questions in the socratic seminar was “In your own words, what is privilege?”. While I felt I could answer this question simply with the quote “system of