Category: Daily Writes
Daily write 2/3/17 “What is College for?”
College is for earning a degree so eventually a student can get a job and have a career for the rest of their lives. College is for making a lot of new friends, learning how to prioritize, and most importantly, learning how to be independent. College is also for learning who you are and what your true beliefs are without any push or judgment from parents or anyone else.
Daily Write #5 Feb. 1, 2016
At Ole Miss I have noticed that students expect their teachers to fulfill their every need because they feel like they basically own them, like it was talking about in the Lugo-Lugo piece. I have noticed students just being on their phones or computers and not paying attention in class, or just never coming to class and still expecting an A.
Daily Write #4
I thought it was really interesting on p. 541 in Rereading America how he explained homophobia and how it really affects men. It’s not as much a fear of gay people, it is more of a fear of men and being called gay and verbally or even physically abused. This passage especially challenged me because I had never thought of homophobia or male stereotypes in that way and how much guys have to live up to. I found it interesting when he said women automatically think a man is gay if they are sentimental or emotional or even a good listener if they care at all.
Daily Write #3 1/27/17 “What connections have you made this week?”
I have made a few connections this week. Rereading America has really broadened my horizons on sexual abuse and violence mainly towards women all over the country. The essay “The Longest War” has an overwhelming amount of statistics about women and just how awful the violence has gotten. This is absolutely insane. If sexual violence has gotten so bad that people around the world are having to protest and write books and everything else, something is seriously wrong and has been wrong for a long time. People do not like to talk about something that makes them uncomfortable so they avoid it, but this topic should be unavoidable. Why aren’t people more informed of things going on in the world? The statistics are so unbelievable it is impossible to avoid, but people try to anyway. It is so sad. This should not be okay. This has been the biggest realization to me this week.
Daily Write #2 bridge project gallary walk 1/25/17
The gallary walk today helped me realize how other people may think of America and that not everyone is optimistic. Some people have gone through a lot worse things than I have that possibly made them this way so it may be hard for them to see the optimistic side of America and our freedoms that we are able to have.
New Semester Resolutions 1/23/17
This semester, I would like to take more time for myself. This past semester I was so busy the whole time and just rushed through everything because I was so preoccupied. Me changing my major will help me have a lot more time than I did because it does not take as much time as being a music major. I was so stressed out last semester trying to balance practicing almost 8 or 9 hours a week, going to class, completing 8 study hours for luckyday a week, band, color guard, and everything else I had going on personally. I was being pulled every which way so my goal this semester is to balance my schedule more efficiently, try to be less stressed, and take more time for myself.
Final Daily Write 12/2/16
I feel so relieved that I am pretty much done and only have two or three finals left. I also feel pretty ready for them, but I have plenty of time to finish everything. I can not believe I have already made it through my first semester at Ole Miss. I have discovered so much about myself that I did not even know. I did not even know there was more to learn about myself, but I was wrong. I love this campus and my fellow students. I love how much I have grown academically and as a person in general. I am very pleased with my first semester as a freshman at the University of Mississippi and I actually can not wait to come back for my next.
Daily Write- Op-Ed Gallery Walk 11/14/16
Today’s gallery walk was extremely helpful because my classmates gave me a lot of ideas to further edit my Op-Ed. Their encouragement helped me a lot because I did not feel like it was as good as it could be. It was helpful to walk around and look at how others formatted their opinionated articles and see others views.
Daily Write 11/2/16
The peer review assigned this week was actually not very effective because none of my group members were here on Monday. When my partner looked over my paper on Wednesday, it was very effective and helped me expand a lot on my research and gave me different ideas to write about.
Daily Write 10/12/16 Research Topic
I think I would like to write about abortion and my opinion on whether it is right or wrong. I feel like I will have a lot to write about because I know both sides of this argument very well and I can make a lot of good points in my argument.