Daily Writes

Hi everyone! I am so excited to be here at Ole Miss! I want to start off by introducing myself, I am Taylor Busby, a freshman here at Ole Miss. I live in Burns Hall, and I could not be happier! I have never been a strong writer, I am more of a reader myself, but I am going to work really hard on improving my writing skills this year. I prefer a strong feedback, do not hold back at all. I am comfortable communicating whenever, it doesn’t really matter to me, whatever works for you works for me! The Hogwarts house that I am in is Gryffindor! My preferred email is taylorbusby01@gmail.com. And No I will not be choosing option two of the A-Grade.

I think for me, my gender has always help me back. When I was younger, I played with everyone, boys and girls on a T-ball team. But I was still always picked last because I was a girl. The coaches always picked the girls last for the lineup, we bat last, we were never on the field. You know that kind of thing. Because of that I feel like I have always just assumed that boys were supposed to better then girl at everything, all because of that limited incident when I was 5-7 years old. So in writings I have done in the past, I have never really worked hard on them, as well as other school work, because I thought that boys would always be better. It wasn’t until I was researching some paper I was doing in my 10th grade English class, where I found a movie, that I thought was very interesting. It was called Hidden Figures, It was about the women behind one of NASA’s greatest operations. In watching that movie it really showed me that you should never try to compare yourself to anyone, not even to boys. and after that, I worked 10x harder than I ever have before. I studied harder and became one of the top students in my class, I ended up graduating 11 our of 200 kids. and I never would have work as hard as I did if I didn’t learn that lesson.

The first of the two pieces of advice that I feel will strongly hale me with this year are, like Skylar said, The professors don’t all hate you. I have always had an issue with how I appear to other people, I don’t know if it is my anxiety or my depression, but for some reason I always feel like someone is always talking about me, or looking down on me, or if I just meet someone, I feel like they hat me for some reason I don’t know why but I always do, every time. And also what Harrison said about the free time, I have started noticing I have way more free time than my high school teachers said I would. They made it seem like I would be busy 24/7 and after being here just two weeks I noticed that I have had way too much free time. And I didn’t realize that would be the case.

I was really looking forward to rushing this year, but after talking with my friends and family who have been here and rushed before, I decided not to do it this year with all of this that is going on right now. I just felt like it wasn’t a good idea for me right now. So I decided to use wait and rush as a sophomore, hopefully all of this COVID mess with be over and done with. I am least looking forward to having to balance all of my classes and keeping up with all of my school work.

The advice I would give to a student going in to their Senior year of high school would be, to enjoy every moment. Take it all in, spend time with your friends, I know when I started my senior year I was not thinking that anything like this would happen. Never in a million years did I think a global pandemic would happen my senior year, but it did. Make sure that you don’t take anything for granted. Go to the prom, cause we didn’t get to, and that is one of my biggest regrets . Make sure that you pay attention in your classes, do your work and don’t slack off. Do not think that just because it’s senior year that the teachers will just give you a pass, I thought that and I learned very quickly that was not the case. But most importantly, enjoy every single day that you get to spend in that classroom, because before you know it, it’ll all be over.

These are 5 minute or less quick writes that we’ll complete in class most days. This will also include any in-class writing about the readings that we do. If you don’t bring your tablet/laptop to class every day or if you prefer writing on paper during class, you’ll need to type up and post these after class.