Final (school) Blog Entry

At the beginning of Essay writing I thought it was going to be like 8th grade English *shudders*, but it wasn't. This class helped me abandon the past ideas that I was "taught" from the 6th grade to the 8th; it was all about structure, structure the essay this way and it'll help you organize your thoughts. What's the variable? Thoughts. Of course they ignored that and just wanted an essay, it was like Ms. Huizenga and her dress code obsession, all she cared about was the dress code and nothing else. Then she got fired at the beginning of the school year or around there :D

All they cared about was the essay and it's structure, they never helped you voice your essay or explain the reason for it; unlike essay writing. Essay writing taught me that the two topics in a compare & contrast essay actually help/support the main reason that you're aiming for in that essay. I never knew a compare and contrast essay had meaning, all I was taught was to point out the similarities and differences between the two and put it into 3 separate paragraphs. Whatever I learned in the 8th grade, I threw away.

The Write To The Point book that we were given has taught me, no, actually changed my views on essays, it showed me a purpose for writing them. My favorite part of the book was the idea that you shouldn't write elegantly, which I had been doing for, well, whenever I started writing essays. I learned to stretch my voice as well as actually promoting it in my essays.

I haven't still learned to pass in my work on time, but that's usually my area of expertise, er was. Only for projects I would do that, but now I'm actually so far behind in make-up work that I haven't had time to study for finals [which in order (A) Drama - Easy final scene that I already did, (B) Algebra - Hard and probably going to fail, next day (C) Essay Writing - pretty simple, (D) Spanish - Hard and probably going to fail along with my oral today].

I will make up my make-up work because I can't go into the summer a bummer and take summer school with 'not-smart-kids'. I'm smart, but I just don't feel like working hard again because the third term was too "easy" for me. Letting someone down is harder than letting yourself down, but I've always said to myself, "If I don't feel like making a blog, then I won't do one"; A blog is a homework assignment, yet, it's not a math problem nor a worksheet. It's only a way to express your feelings as well as your writing skills (which you use to effectively make one). But I've learned another thing form late work, one feeling leads to another and if you don't attain that feeling then you might lose it. I could make the last week of school go by as fast as I want, I control time. Yet the make-up work is dragging me behind, like a slingshot, once I get it all done, I'll move forward very, very fast.

I will always remember not to write elegantly, and to provide purpose to my compare and contrast essays as well as effectively presenting and restating my thesis. The only areas of improvement that I need to fix are my feelings for passing work in on time and to add more voice than metaphoric sentences. My glasses have saw everything from my success to my downfall, then one of my lenses fell out maybe because it was too afraid to see my failure, but the other lense is lucky to see my success again.