Eng 104

English 101 and 102 are suppose to get you ready for English 104. Except I'm not sure if I'm ready. I have learned a lot in this two semesters, but I don't know if its enough. English has never been a strong class for me. I always hated my high school English classes, and that has made me not like all English classes. Even thought I hate English, I still plan on doing my best to pass the class. I'm just afraid that my best may not be good enough. If thats the case, then I will get help from an outside source. There are some many people that go here, someone has to know what they are doing. And if worse comes to worse I can always go to the writing center. I guess there is more then one way for me to pass this class, lets just hope that it happens.

Final Portfolio

It is almost the time for my final English 102 portfolio to be due. I am getting a little bit nervous because it is worth 60 percent of my final grade. I have learn a lot in this class, but it will a all of work to make this portfolio college expectable. The research will take a while, and then I would still have to put my thoughts together. Which one of the hardest thing for me to do. I like I know what to say, just not how to say it. All of my other classes are finishing up as well, and it is pretty overwhelming. I just hope I will be able to handle all of it.

The Past Week

This past week in English 102 we have been reading our papers, and getting feedback from everyone in the class. Someone would read their paper, then one by one each person would give their thoughts about the paper. For me, this helped a lot. Everyone is receiving feedback from their audience. This experience will improve everyone's papers to the expectations. I thought it was good to get that individual attention from everyone. Everything was helpful and someone always catches the mistake you missed.

Portfolio

It is almost that time again. The time where my English portfolio is due. I feel like I just turned in my 101 portfolio and now I have to turn in my 102 portfolio. This portfolio has higher expectations. It is a new semester and my writing is suppose to have improved. But I don't know if it has? I mean I feel like I have learned a lot, but I can't really be the judge for my own work. I will soon start to get stressed about this portfolio. It was pretty time consuming the first time and I am expecting this portfolio to take up more time. Mainly because I had a general idea on what pieces of work I wanted to put in the first time. Now I have no idea. I want to but in the best pieces, to show my full potential, but to be honest I don't know which pieces of work are the best.

Timed Writing

To me timed writings are pretty difficult. Writing for me is a long stressful processes in itself, now theres a time limit? It takes me a long time to write even a page. I know what I want to say its just hard to put it in words. This is probably why it takes me so long. But, I did the timed writing to the best of my ability. As of right now I don't know how I actually did, but I'm crossing my figures and hoping that I did alright.

Carmichael Smoking Area

When I found out that we had to do a group project which consists of creating a facebook fan page about a place on campus, I was a little confused. Everyone's fan page was about buildings on campus. Who wants to be a fan of a building on campus? My first thought is nobody. So I suggested we create ours for Carmichael Smoking Area. There is honestly people there 24/7. Big groups of people will just go there and socialize. Its is a place where someone can go to get away and relax. It represents a good time to the people that conjugate there. This makes me believe that Carmichael Smoking Area will get more fans then anybody else's page.

California Prison System

Finding out about the horrible prison conditions in California, didn't really come as a shock to me. These convicts have done crimes that they have to pay for. I do feel that the living conditions are a little harsh, but they are convicts. The only thing that bothers me is that there is so many prisoners in the condensed area of that prison. This makes it hard to keep an eye on every prisoner. Which also makes that prison not safe. Something need to be done to lower the number of prisoners. They have talked about just letting some prisoners go. I don't agree with this at all. There has to b another prison that can take more prisoners.