When I decided to start school again I thought this should be an easy class, I’m a smart guy I shouldn’t have any problems. Then when I first saw Mr. Gasparo my thoughts on this English class were very much reinforced that this was definitely going to be an easy one to complete. Oh was I most definitely wrong. He turned out to be quite the asshole, but this was good in a many ways. Now I was in no way prepared for this class, and definitely didn’t expect the need to be. I figured I can write and read English pretty well seeing that I have been doing it for say twenty years. Well I found out I really suck at my own language, which really sucks. Thank goodness I wasn’t the only one in the class that felt this way about themselves.
The class was actually pretty nice, there were some people that were definitely at a higher level than most of us in the class. There was this one girl whose name I’m not going to mention (she ended up dropping out ‘cause the teacher was an asshole) that sat behind me for most of the time she was there. She was a nice person, but when it came to peer reviewing someone’s paper she was not the person you wanted to do. I can understand you might want to get good feedback from the reviewer, but damn did this eat papers alive. All I could think about when it came time to for a peer review was “I really hope she doesn’t get my paper”. The rest of the class was pretty cool, they would review papers and I still felt like an idiot but not as bad as if that girl would of did it. It was pretty cool to see how quiet that class was at the beginning of the semester, and towards the end I think the teacher was ready to kill most of us for not shutting up especially the two girls that sat at the back. Looking back at some of the assignments we had to complete, none were too hard.
When we got the first assignment to write a diagnostic essay which purpose was so the teacher can see what level we were all on, but to me that was just a nice way of seeing how stupid we all actually were. The most prepared I was for any of the essays we had to complete had to of been the argument essay, not the argument presentation though. Even though I haven’t done the presentation yet (that’s on Wednesday this week), I know already that it’s not going to be cool. Back to the argument essay, I didn’t really know what to expect being that I have really never written anything like it before at least not that I can remember. Once I got started reading and learning more about my topic which was cloning, I got a little bogged down at all the information that was pouring in on me. It took me a while to realize that I was doing a research paper but an argument paper, so I had to learn to decipher the information and only pick what would help my argument convince the reader. I hope I don’t get an F for saying this but I think the one assignment I definitely could have done without has got to be this one right here. This blog essay stuff I don’t think I’ll ever use again; I’m just not the diary or blog type of guy. Really when I look back all the essays and exercises did something for me be it knowing how to just write stuff down and read it later, or how to make the paragraphs flow into each other.
All in all this class was very good to me. When I reflect back at these past short eight weeks I get this feeling of accomplishment. I came in expecting it to be easy, and learned very fast it wasn’t going to be. Then I just got into all of it, and after the first two weeks I have to say it did get kind of easy. The instructor was great, even though he was kind of an asshole it was a good thing. I think we needed that from him to get us going, to make sure we didn’t take this class as a joke. Which it definitely is not a joke, we should all be able to read and write proper English (even though “text talk” is easier… lol). The class was probably one of the best I have ever been in. I think everybody worked well together. As I leave this essay and class behind I just want to thank the instructor for being great, you made the class different and fun and I thank you for this experience (This was not a brown nose sentence either, just giving thanks where it was deserved).
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