Writing and Living

Reflection In high school, I wasn’t a very strong writer. I never really knew how to write a paper and didn’t know how to format it. I took AP classes and I never really got good grades on my papers and never really revised them either. I would write a first draft and have that be my final draft. That was probably not the smartest thing to do. If there’s one thing I learned from this class, it is to revise, revise, revise. “Write early, revise often” is what Dr. Kyburz always said. When I first entered the classroom of my College Writing I course, I was determined to become a better writer. I would learn how to edit my drafts, get them checked over, and learn how to format. For me, the documentary summary project was my favorite to write about. It was very interesting to pick a documentary to watch and learn about. The documentary I chose was The Hunting Ground. This opened my eyes to a whole new concept that I never knew was a major issue. This paper was pretty difficult for

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What Time?     I, like most other students, have a major problem with time management. Balancing school and your personal life can be a difficult thing to do. I used to be in cheerleading, dance, and an employee at Hollister in high school, which was not easy. I never had time to do my homework because I would go straight from school, to cheer practice, then dance practice, then work. How can someone who is a student, in a sport, has a job, social life, family, friends, have time to do anything?     One factor that students can be stressed out can be because of their time management. Some people have classes all day long, while others have practice for a sport for hours. There are also people in clubs and activities and their own personal/social lives to worry about. And not to mention that the average teenager should get around 8-9 hours of sleep every night. We are told that it is important to have all of those aspects in our life, yet might not be able to approach them with eno

The published review I looked at for "The Hunting Ground" was The New York Times. Their writing seems to be more open about the film and appears to be more of a summary, whereas my reflective writing is more about the content. Manohla Dargis, who wrote this review, says that the visual aspect of the film is somewhat of a mess. She also reveals that the directors approach to his material is evident in the opener. Her writing seems to focus more on the style of the movie than the actual story, which is how mine was written. I focused on the specific questions I was being asked and looked more into the story line and gave my opinion on that instead of how the film was made. I gave personal opinions whereas it seems that Dargis just gave general ideas and basically just summarized the film.

1. There wasn’t really a specific scene or part that got to me but the whole documentary in general. With all of the rape victims telling their emotional story of how it happened made me more angry than sad. To even think that those people could do such a thing to those girls makes me outraged. They don’t understand that traumatic things like that can affect a person so bad. For example, the guy who committed suicide after he was sexually assaulted. For guys it’s even worse because being raped is a “crime against girls”, so guys tend to not talk about it or admit it. My heart hurt for each victim shown, and the fact that the schools try to cover it up make it even worse. 2. What surprised me was when one of the victims, Annie Clark, said that she told her administrator that she had been violently raped and instead of being concerned or trying to get help, she blamed it on her and asked her questions like "were you drunk", "what would you do differently", like i

So I haven't really talked about myself on here or really expressed who I am, so I'll do that now. To start off with, my name is Vanida and I am a freshman at Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois. I am 18 years old and majoring in biology. I am an only child with a mother who plays both the mother and father role. I currently don't really know where life is taking me right now but I hope its something I will be satisfied with. I used to have dreams of traveling the world one day and working with animals. I still do. Animals and exploring new places are my passion. I hope to one day visit London, a place that I have always wanted to visit. I dream of living in California with the hot sun beating down on my face and living next to the beach. It all sounds like a dream to be honest. Something unrealistic. But I hope one day I will find peace with myself and finally feel settled down.

So, wow, its been a week of college so far and honestly I don't know how I got here. It seems like just yesterday was the day I graduated from high school. The day we were finally free of high school I never wanted to look back. College however, did make me a little nervous, but I wasn't going to think about that because I still had all summer long to enjoy. But before I knew it, it was move-in day. The time went by pretty fast and I was freaking out about how these next four years would turn out. During welcome week, I made many new friends and met so many people I thought I would never become friends with. So my first week of college was going so great. Then, classes started. I thought it wouldn't be too bad because it was only the first week and we would probably just go over the syllabus and introduce ourselves, but I was so wrong. We started going from the start, day one. I had 4 quizzes that week, one on Wednesday and three on Friday. It was pretty stressful trying to