December 17, 2018

 

College is not what I expected. It’s better than I could’ve hoped, yet there are still many ways I need to grow. I was blessed to have 3 amazing professors and two of them I’d like to apologize to for a few reasons. This semester I couldn’t reflect on my writing because I hadn’t composed anything all semester. I gave the most effort in class but not outside. I worked, did other school work, slept, ate, or just wasted time. I wish that I had read all the readings in the first place because they’re actually quite intriguing. Reading them now, I see how great the assignments were because of how passionate and thought provoking they really are. I wish I had taken more time to really delve into the theory of writing, what it truly means to me,  and how it impacts my voice in my compositions. I think learning about Rhetoric really opened up a new world for me. It put all writing in general into a whole different perspective. In school we are taught very formal and limited styles of writing, Yet we read so many different formats and voices but we are asked to write in one singular voice. I wanted to use that knowledge to develop a stronger sense of self in my writing and use that to create more than just assignments for class. I also never thought of social media, gifs, memes, etc as a literary device. I truly appreciated this modernistic and fresh take on the traditional English class. But the icing on the cake was to have two queer teachrs acknowledge everything I care about, so that I could work that much harder to write what I want to write in my voice and in an array of styles.