What I've Learned..

My time in English 201 this semester was nothing short of a very pleasurable learning experience. Going back to high school, I had always been one who enjoyed writing and crafting language, and because of this I took all of the English courses including AP English courses that I could. This class brought back a lot of the good memories I have about writing from a few years ago. While there was a good amount of writing assigned to us through the blog posts and various papers, we weren’t so overwhelmed with work that it took the enjoyment out of the craft. Everything in the class was balanced just right, and I will therefore look back at it with fond memories.
I’ve also made a very profound decision recently, and it’s no coincidence that I was currently enrolled in this course at the time it came. I have switched majors, and am pursuing a goal of graduating with an English degree, and there after getting a teacher’s certificate, with hopes of teaching high school English. This is no small happening considering I had been dead set on graduating with a degree in Kinesiology for a number of years; but no more. I can look back to a good deal that occurred in this course and use it as a guide when I begin teaching my own classes down the road. The amount of freedom that we were able to have during the course of the semester was a real breath of fresh air, and a much needed break from the usual set of unbreakable rules and guidelines. This freedom of a hard set of rules often goes hand in hand with a freedom that is given to our imagination, allowing our true creativity to shine through. This was indeed the case for me, and very likely many of my other class mates. Without a doubt, the time that I invested every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon was well spent. There’s no question that I have a stronger confidence in my writing, and also a new found confidence to teach others and guide them in their very own writing endeavors.

All in all, I am very content with what I have taken from this course, and I hope that everyone would agree.

Thank you to everyone who took the time to read my blogs this spring, and I wish all of you a great summer.

Until we meet again,

DP