Writ 101 scared me so badly when I first moved in and started thinking about classes. It was my first class at 8 am on Monday morning. My first college class was the stereotypical Writ 101 class and I was worried that it was going to be everything I heard about college, the massive classes where your professor does not care if you even show up. Then I walked into a room that could not even fit 50 people, and my teacher was fun, British and cared about her students.

This first assignment was a great stepping stone that did not make college seem as scary as I had pictured in my mind. I feel pretty good about this assignment. I struggled a little with editing my paper because I do not trust myself. I love peer reviews because they help me see what other people think of my work. Since we did not have an in class peer review I sent my paper to a friend back home to get a double check on my spelling and grammar. Grammar has always been a struggle for me because my ideas flow without any structure. If I had more time, I would have gone to office hours and had a sit down conversation about my paper with Ms. Wilson, but I just did not have the forethought to do that.

This paper was similar to papers I wrote at the end of senior year because it was about bringing multiple texts together. This was something my high school strove for because it showed us using more skills than copy and paste into a formula and spitting out an essay. I think that I did well on my body paragraphs. I feel that I brought up topics that were not the obvious choice for this paper, which always excites me. I made myself have a complete rough draft by the Sunday before it was due so I could spend the whole week revising. I feel very proud of this paper because I committed myself to making it good. I have never reread a paper so many times, like I did for this assignment. I reread it at lease once a day this last week and think that I caught most of my errors.

The Ten Core Concepts readings helped show me that writing is what I thought it was, academic work, but that it was also every social media post I make. This was comforting because it made writing seem less scary. I had to write for a couple of other classes during this project and those readings helped me in those other classes as well as Writ 101.

Class work on thesis and introductions was a saving grace because I did not know what to make of a college paper and those are what I have struggled with throughout high school. So doing it at a college level freaked me out! Fortunately we had that lesson which calmed my nerves. I feel more confident about my ability to be write because of this project. I think that I had to conquer plenty of fears and did it all and produced what I believe is an awesome paper. My hope is that I followed the prompt, but still incorporated the personal aspect of the paper.