I learned a lot this semester in College Writing 100. From reading the three articles on education, I learned to not fear them, and that they were readable, if I tore them apart. Also, I learned that it was effective when I wrote down notes to help me remember the important parts of the readings. Personally, I learned that if I set time aside to think about my writing, I can do better. The blog assignments were also helpful in putting my ideas together because they were not that formal. For thinking, I learned to think more about other people and how different lives can be.
At first, I did not like the writing assignments because they were so open on what I could write my essay on. Back in high school, my teachers all had a set question that we had to focus our essay on and so I was not comfortable with so many choices. For the last paper, I was still not sure what I wanted to write about. For the first two essays, I liked the variety and the essay even though I liked the topic on women in the media more. The blogs were cool but they were confusing at first. I liked how we were all linked to Professor Brumitt's main blog. All the articles and the book were worthwhile to read. They all made me think about different problems like losing a culture, and the many problems of education. Since this is my first semester of college, I knew that I should expect things to be different from high school. This class met my expectations because it wasn't too difficult, although I did not realize that we also had to buy God, Dr. Buzzard and the Bolito Man.
