Rough Weekend

I had one of the worst weeks sense school has started. To start with me and my girlfriend broke up. It was kind of a serious relationship so it was hard to get over. As I thought my life couldn't get any worse, my grandma past away. After this happened I wasn't very motivated to do anything all weekend. It is crazy how fast your life change. One day I have a girlfriend and a grandma and the next I don't have either one. So as I get back to Ball State I think about all the things I wasn't motivated to do, and I realize that I have some English 101 to do. Well I guess I can't procrastinate anymore.

Only Two Days

For my English 101 class we just revised a paper and turned it in Friday. Now our assignment is to revise another paper that is due Monday. This is hard work alone, but I am also not having the best days right now. School is starting to get pretty hard and long distance relationships suck too. I'm just getting really stressed out about everything that is going on. I have so much stuff to do in so little time. I guess I am just going to have to step up and put everything aside, until I get my work done. Serious Mark starts now!

There is a Whole World to Explore

I really enjoyed read Pamela Gardners’ paper. She goes into great deal with her trip to Brazil. It was just an all around good written paper. I also think that she picked the perfect pictures. The pictures made her paper multimodal and also give her audience a visual. This paper is not the normal 5 paragraph paper that most people are used to reading. It is more like she is telling you the story at the same time you are looking at a photo album. Overall I would give this paper a 5 out of 6, mainly because at some points she talks a little too much about unimportant things. And I feel that she might have lost some of her audience. But, the paper still has everything it needs such as; a title, a work cited page, and great flow. She went from one paragraph to with next very nicely. You can just tell that she took her time and did the research that she needed to complete this paper. I would say that it is a portfolio ready paper.

One on One

I had an idea about what I wanted to write about for the final project in English 101. But, I didn't really know how to put it together. This made me nervious and not very confident about my writing. Everyone in the class had a meeting to meet with our professor one on one. I was thinking that with one on one time could help me in writing a better college level paper. And come to find out I was right. Meeting with my professor one on one really help me put my thoughts together.

Saved By The Alarm

I had prepared for my timed essay by getting a good nights sleep. In the morning I got up a little earlier just to wake up and feel fresh for English 101. I put on some conforable clothes and walked outside to have my morning cigarette. It was just one of those mornings where you are feeling good and production. When I get to class I am feeling pretty confident, which is kind of weird because I have never been good at timed essays. My professor isn't there, but there is another lady that handed everyone the prompt. After reading the prompt, I didn't feel as confident. So I just started writing and I get about a page when the fire alarm started going off. The whole class walked outside and waits until we go back in. We were probably waiting for 10 or 15 mins. When we get back the woman the gave us the prompt didn't really know what to do so she just told us to post what we had. This made me happy, because I didn't think that I was writing a very good essay. And now I have an excuse why, I was saved by the alarm.