Kori Gibbons
Southwick
ENG 102
7 December 2016
When I was thinking about going back to school. I dreaded the thought of having to take
English 102. I have always had trouble
with English composition. My two main confidence
breakers are my grammar, and how long it takes me to organize my thoughts into
a paper. I came to class the first day worried
about how much time this class is going to take up in my life and very anxious
just to get a passing grade.
I am very relieved that I had a much better experience in
this class than I thought I would. The
first doubt I had about my expectation of this class is when we wrote down what
we wanted to get from English 102 and what we did not like about English
classes, on a small white square paper. The impression I received from a
teacher that considers their student’s weaknesses and reinforces that there is
not a need to worry was slightly untrusting.
The next few days of class I began to enjoy the relaxed atmosphere and
the different learning styles that were tended to. I still felt that I shouldn’t let my guard
down and if I had more free time than I expected I should try to work ahead on
assignments. Having the assignments
posted on the calendar for the entire months, brought more relief as I was able
to plan and guess how much time I would need to complete the assignments. Referring to the syllabus to read the first
few assignments helped me further gauge what kind of time commitment I got
myself into. I found that balancing this
class with life was not going to be as much trouble as I thought. I also began to feel more confident when I
learned that my papers were not ‘just marked up’. It was very helpful to have peer reviews and comment
from the teacher that were really helpful.
I’m glad I got the teacher I did because I feel more confident now. I know that in the future when I write papers
I need to try to organize them better and that I need to be careful of using
commas.
Thank you for being flexible, and giving me a much better
experience than were my expectations. Hope
to see you around, and I hope you’re okay with me still using you at a resource
for my other papers in next semester.
