Last Class

In a way I’m agitated about the students in this class. I’m not sure if it because I’m older or I want more out of my education or maybe I just try to be an honest, responsible person.
When I signed up to take English 101 I knew it wouldn’t be a class where I had to do hours of memorization or hours of practice to get it down. I knew it would be time consuming and lots of writing. I prepared myself for what was ahead. I had a home life to take care of as well as a 7 week old colic child that I had to bring to class every day and a teaching job 3 times a week. I had a lot to juggle. I’m not saying that the other people in my class didn’t have their own hand full to deal with. What I’m saying is that I feel like I could have learned more and got more accomplished if it wasn’t for some of the people in my class. Actually a good bit of the people in my class.
I feel that those people were lazy and didn’t care if they failed the class or helped their classmates fail. Yes, I said help them fail. Since this is an English class we are all required to work together. Only one person worked to help me and that person wasn’t even required or put in my group to help.
I’m agitated that I did what I was supposed to do and most of the other student didn’t. Case in point: On the very last day of class a student asked about the blogs that was not only discussed at the beginning of class and throughout the class but was posted on the blackboard where you could go and look any time you wanted to. The blackboard had all the information that you needed for deadlines. That student obviously didn’t do and of the blogs because that student complained (once again the teacher explained the requirements for it numerous times) that it was 300 words each. So being that it was the last class day and one 3-4 page paper and a 1 page paper was due with 5 days, six 300 word essays were due as well. If this person would have kept up on it then they wouldn’t be in this predicament. Another example is when the teacher is trying to help you, stop INTERRUPPING to let everyone know what you think and about your life, and let the teacher do her job. Your life is far from relevant in this classroom.
A perfect example of helping your classmate fail is with the blog address. When someone (me) asked 3 times in class and 3 emails for blog address so I can reply to 2 people each week so I get my grade and only two people reply and one person out of the two hasn’t even written a blog in 7 weeks, makes my grade suffer.
For my conclusion, (because I have over 500 words already) this is the laziest class that I have ever been in. This class took the fun out of learning English and made it hard to sit and listen to certain people absurd opinions on what they thought were relevant to the subject being talked about. I think some people just liked hearing themselves talk.

Last paper

I think writing this last paper made me realize how far and how much I learned in this class the past 8 weeks or so. This last paper I wrote was the easiest one yet. I enjoyed writing it more because I felt like I knew what I was doing, instead of all the other papers felt like a semi organized free write. It was a little more difficult because I had to focus on two aspects of my topic but once the free write was over, I had a few points narrowed down. This paper also had the least of comments from smarthinking.com. So I’m hoping I’m applying what I’m learning and finally doing a good job.
I’ve enjoyed this class a good bit. It was a little harder than I expected because I had to bring my daughter with me almost every day. It was usually during nap time when class was and she was not happy a lot of the time. I kept telling myself that we could get through it. I say we because it was her and I that did this class together. I hope that I didn’t bother too many people with her always being there and having to attend to her constantly.
Another thing I hope I didn’t do was get on people’s nerves by always asking questions and clarifying what was being discussed. I have a habit of always asking questions and hearing people sigh behind me. I was shunned in high school by asking questions but now since I pay for my school I feel justified to asking all the questions I want. At the same time I don’t feel guilty for asking these questions. I want to make sure I fully understand what is going on. My grades depend on it if I understand what’s going on.
I hope my grade in this class portrays what I learned and tried to apply in this class. I now think I have some tools to be able to write a decent paper without much help from peer review. This class has taught me how to get an idea to write about, free write, and cluster on it to find main points to write about. This class has taught me to finally write a thesis statement and organize my thought for a better reading. I hope to use all this information in my next writing experiences.