This is a wholesome reflection on my time in English Composition I under professor Sabatino Mangini at Delaware County Community College.
To start off on a personal note, this was my very first class in college and hence has given me my first impressions. It was the class I was most excited for because I love to write and love to prove myself and be challenged by teachers of the literary field. This was honestly my most enjoyable class. while we started with an almost full room of students and by the end lost nearly half, I grew to experience some social connections and realized the potential that can be gained from starting a blog. I have developed my blog in a large amount of ways and hope to continue doing this on a somewhat regular basis so i can also build somewhat of an audience. I also found the professor to be three things: inspiring, entertaining and highly captivating. He seemed to have an excellent grasp on his class topic and many excellent innovative methods on teaching it. these methods all prove to be engaging and fun for the class even when it was night and sometimes lasted till 9:10pm. I was probably one of the only people happy with that fact but that is more of a reflection on my love for learning and writing. Anyhow Mr. Mangini provided great criticism and feed back on my work and kept his charisma ongoing throughout class which in turn kept me just as enthused as I needed to be even in assignments of the most boring topics. He did all this while under the stress of a concussion on top of whatever else was going on in his life and i find that fairly admirable. I found the work to be very engaging and innovative, especially the Life Choice Memoir. When I first wrote this assignment I hated both the work and the content I had created. The story I wrote was very unexplored and unvented for me so everything felt raw and everything felt like a migraine to write. As time went on and more revisions were made I grew more invested and wanted to open up more in this memoir. I don't usually dabble in my own life and this gave me more intuition to delve into myself and my life's experiences through my writing. The second formal assignment our research paper was equally captivating although more challenging because I don't normally delve into political topics. One of the ways I tried making this easier was by depoliticizing my topic and attempting to make it more moral. This helped me because my argument was easier to make emotional and not as boring to write (I find most political topics to be uninteresting.) I also learned the very boring requirements for citation so this was fairly useful even if I do end up getting a poor grade. I think one of the goals any professor should have is to make their student want to come back to class. I can say with absolute certainty that id love to have this class again and only wish it would last longer. I believe I am engaging in a practice that is both innovative and inspiring for me as a writer. It also can be challenging and pushes me to take leaps in my ability which can only be a good thing whether I do poorly or well. I also appreciated the ability to revise my assignments over and over to get the right grade and for some people this may be more urge to procrastinate but for me it only pushes me to progress and revise more, along with the need to manage my heavily busy schedule.
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