My Reflection of my First Year of College English

As the semester has come to an end, I have had lots of time to reflect on what I have learned about myself as a writer since the beginning of the semester. My professor Linda Norton taught a class which offered lots of opportunities for students to incorporate parts of themselves into projects. I feel the most appreciative of work which involved me reflecting on myself and my experiences. For instance, the first part of the purpose essay is a great example of an assignment where I was given the chance to reflect on myself. The project involved me speaking on things I felt passionate about in my life. Personally, I love projects where I can just speak freely about things that I find interest in which is very rare, because I am someone who is very selective with what I choose to invest my time in. I feel I have learned that I thrive most as a writer when I am given the opportunity to speak freely and with no limitations of what I can talk about. On the other hand, I would also like to mention some of my plans for the future. Ideally I am aiming towards possible transferring in a year or so to a school closer to home. While I have been living here in the bay area I did enjoy much of my time, but I find more comfort and security in being closer to home where my family and friends live. I am hoping by next semester when I take the English 216 course I can become more interested in writing and etc. I find that usually starting writing assignments I can become easily intimidated by the prompts and figuring out what I want to write about. I would like to find new ways to make this starting process easier for myself. Some ways that I may approach this issue is by doing things like outlines and etc to help formulate possible ideas in my head. I think just taking the time to even come up with the most simple topics and writing down those ideas could easily help for me to later expand on. Another part of myself as a writer that I hope to change is my tendency to do revision thoroughly. I understand that I don't always have a professor willing to encourage revision on my work, but I plan to start taking charge myself and properly rereading anything I write to make sure what I have written is always clear and explains the points I am trying to make. In conclusion, I have a lot of goals that I plan on pursuing as a writer for my next English 216 course. 

On the other hand when we spoke of student taught courses at SFSU, I was very intrigued by the concept of these classes. I was never aware of these classes, and I found a lot of the subjects being taught very diverse and unexpected. If I were given the opportunity to teach my own course, it would probably be a class about spirituality or something along those lines. The reason why I would teach a course about this is because it is something I have become very passionate about over the past few months of my life. I find the concept of it very intriguing and that there is so much to learn about it. Personally, I am someone who thinks a lot and always has a certain goal for myself to achieve whether that be physically or mentally. Spirituality can be defined as “a broad concept with room for many perspectives.” This type of topic is very important to me, because I feel it offers so much opportunity to think, reflect, and improve. I find that this topic brings me lots of happiness and interest, and a lot of other students would easily relate with me because I am almost positive that many people have the same interest. The course would probably involved reading several books and etc from other people who are considered “spiritual”. We would mostly discuss and anything and everything, because the course would ultimately offer the opportunity to talk about anything about ourselves and etc.