My English Experience.

Yo!  I love English.  I'm majoring in it.  You could say my experience in high school with the subject was a very positive one, considering I had no intention of studying English past the high school level before my freshman year.  My freshman English teacher led the class in discussions about the texts, and he encouraged us to delve deeper into what the authors tried to communicate.  During that year, I started to see the beauty in the structure and arguments of an analytical paper.  The following year, my teacher exposed me to creative writing, a field of English I had not explored previously.  We read The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and he assigned a short creative composition in McCarthy's style.  From that point on, my interest in English remained most intensely with the creative side.  However, I enjoy applying that creative side to analytical papers as well.  I spent my junior year of high school with two teachers whose teaching styles did not prove very effective for me.  Neither of them seemed to care about the students' individual progress.  My senior year of English went a lot better.  My classes did not focus on any creative element of writing, but I was able to apply several different strategies I picked up throughout the year in all of my papers.  All in all, high school English was a good time!  When I was not happy with my teachers, I read a lot of different material on my own to try to broaden my writing abilities.

From the name of this class, I am guessing we will be focusing more on argumentative essays.  I look forward to developing my skills further and learning new tools to craft clear and concise arguments.  As with anything new, I am worried that I will not be able to keep up with all the new information at first.  College has already presented several challenges, both in and out of the classroom.  It follows that a college-level English course will set new and interesting challenges upon me throughout the semester.  In this way, I will be forced to adjust and manage my time and talents more efficiently.  Nevertheless, I know college as a whole will mold me into the person I want to be.  I am looking forward to challenging myself with new classes and new experiences that will benefit my writing.