Personal Narrative: What I Learned In My Class

College Writing 1 is my first college writing class ever, I have high hopes I will learn a lot. I hope during this class I learn how to correctly cite different sources, learn new styles of writing, and fine tune the writing skills I already have. I think the most challenging part of this class will be keeping up with all the different writings we do, from journal entries to a research paper. Another thing that will be a challenge is the amount of words needed for each paper. I will need to practice how to write more in depth to make sure I at least hit the two hundred fifty word mark. The thing I am most excited for with this class is to be able to write again. As a former writer for the Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania newspaper, writing food

I spoke in public when I was in high school, 11th grade. I had to present about America and Vietnam war without using the note in my history class. However, I was little shy and scare that people will laugh at me because I cannot speak fluently English, even I was practice a lot at home and in my free times. In that moment I thought that I will give up. But, when I hear my friend’s presentation I feel like there are two person talking inside of me. One is motived me to go and the other one is not. At that time, I choose to step up and speak in front of my class because I know that I cannot hide behind my back forever so I motivated myself that I have to win the afraid in me. After that time, I have more experience, and in 12th grade I spoke

Owing to various reasons, I learnt a lot over break. Whether it was through writing these journals, or just through being home for a significant amount of time for the first time since I left for college, I gained a lot of insight about myself that I didn’t have before. I think the biggest realization I made is that I am the only one that can actually spark a change in me. I think most of the things I’ve written about have been in my head but I never took the time to go through them. I knew what I was doing wrong but never thought about how I could fix it and this break allowed me to go the extra step and think about that.

In the six weeks summer class, I learned a lot about the writing process. I learned that it has five steps. I learned that before you start to write an essay, one must do the following things Prewriting, Drafting, Revision, Editing, and Publishing.

“5 minutes!” a voice shouts over the loudspeaker. Perspiration drips down my face and my hand throbs with pain. The seconds tick by but are drowned out by the pounding of my heart. I summon all my strength and will my hands to move faster and faster. The speakers crackle with static as the voice shouts, “Hands down.” Eight hours of mind-numbing calculations and stratagem. It’s over; all the work, the sleepless nights, the literal blood, sweat, and tears. What for?

I feel I could bring a broad perspective to the classroom due to my experiences. My childhood is something many people don’t experience and few have told about it. Growing up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood with a single parent is hard. I didn’t get to experience things an average child may be exposed to but instead, I developed a valuable skill. I learn that with patience and commitment anything is possible. With these two skills, a man can do anything. As of currently I have done something not a single person in my family has accomplished, to attend a university.

The question is, what have I learned in this class. Well to start, as I can remember going all the way back to the first day of class, I learned the key to actually taking my time, to actively think and revise everything that comes my way. I should not just take weird looking things out of context as to just thinking it is junk or not meeting the standards of a pain old piece of work that I am normally used to seeing. I learned that art comes I many shapes and sizes. For instance, a particular piece from artist Chris Ofili, a best of mine but not a favorite.

There is so much i have learned this year and I am so blessed to have taken this class and get to know you. You have done so much for me and i want to thank you for all that you have done.

I was surprised how many of my classes taught me these concepts; I knew those classes were setting out to teach me not only the material specific to that class, but also valuable skills that can be used in a variety of situations, but it was still surprising. While I was going through my list of classes I realized that even though some of them are unnecessary for my degree I don’t regret taking them as I learned much more than I thought. I found that most of my classes built upon the skills I had learned in previous classes, even when those classes had nothing to do with one another. I learned part of a skill in one class and the rest in a completely unrelated class later.

_”Well I guess if you're going to be involved in the school Orchestra you won't really need to worry about taking any performing arts subjects after all then :) It's good to see that you're going to be mentoring other kids I think you'll grow in wisdom in it and the other kids will really benefit from you as well. Your teacher is right you are going to be very busy with school!”_

“I am still learning,” that is what the 87 year old Michelangelo declared, but what was he learning? A countless number of facts? How to be a great artist? No, he was making himself into a better, well-rounded person. That is what a liberal arts education provides an individual; because a liberal arts education is not only about learning facts, but becoming a well-rounded individual, in doing so, making the world a better place. Loras’s four dispositions—active learners, reflective thinkers, ethical decision-makers, and responsible contributors to professions, societies, and religious communities—make this feasible.

I could still remember the day my 3rd grade teacher passed out a rubric paper and as i looked down at it, i felt like it all was in hebrew. All my teacher told me was “go home tonight and give this to your parents.” In bogota colombia they have never introduced science projeect so not only did i think it was in herew but my whole family thought to ourselves what is this thing. now and days you can google up a lot of information, but back then computers worked so limited, we had to go to the public library and ask and check out books to figure out what we were going to do. As a little girl i thought “ wow this is going to be so much fun and creative” as we started buildng up the board with abstracts, questions, hypothesis,background reseach,

As a maturing student, I have come to realize there are things that can not be taught to you. Sometimes the lessons can only be grasped if they are self discovered. No matter how basic the lesson may seem, after you learn it, it is something that is bound to change your perception looking forward. For me, that now obvious lesson is however much effort I put into something, I am bound to see equivalent results.

At the beginning of this Jumpstart program, I thought I was going to be wasting my time in some English remedial course like I did in high school. I was thinking to myself that it was going to be a class where I come in and here the teacher talks about how to read and write properly. Well, I thought wrong. This class has helped me identify my struggles as a reader and writer. I have learned certain methods to help me grow as a stronger academic student throughout the years I will be spending at UTRGV.

It was the first day of kindergarten and I remember walking into the classroom feeling like an alien who had disembarked from a spaceship. My mom introduced me in her broken English to the teacher. “Hi everyone, this is Anna Ramashkevich,” the teacher exclaimed. The class erupted into laughter. “Richmanivich, Ramach…” she stuttered, trying to correct herself before accepting defeat and sending me utterly humiliated with my alien-green head and antennas to the ground into a crowd of mocking kindergarteners.