Keeping It Above Water

Mid-Term Check In:

Dear Ms. Cline,

I am trying my hardest to keep my head above water. I totally thought English 102 was going to be hard considering it was online as opposed to having you in-person. Come to find out it is more convenient for me, but I also have to keep up with all the assignment you ask us to do weekly.

My biggest challenge this semester is keeping up with all the assigned work. It looks like you assign a lot during each week, but when looking at it; it’s mostly material to help us get through the assignments posted for that week. I have a heavy workload this semester and I trying my hardest to balance work life with school life. I have to admit that the readings you assign are not always easy to understand in one read.

The reading in class has affected me greatly. I have not always been a strong reader to begin with. Most of the stories you assigned I had to read more than once. Sometimes I would have to come in during office hours and make sure I got the story right. These two reading might have been hard to understand but in the end they are good stories.

I would say a literary analysis is different from another types of work I have done because in a literary analysis it’s all about understanding different techniques that make a literary work so effective. Not only do we have to identify it in the stories, but we also have to write an essay explaining what we identified, which is somewhat like what we did in English 101 but not as in depth as it is now?

My goal for the rest of the semester is to get my work submitted earlier as possible as opposed to last minute and hopefully I will accomplish this soon. The things I hope to improve are my writing for the most part. I am not the best writer and I know I can do a lot better but I struggle a lot and if it wasn’t for the learning centers English tutoring I wouldn’t have been as successful as I am now.

 

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This is what my sunday night consist of :-( haha!