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About a month ago, I began my business as an independent beauty consultant for Mary Kay cosmetics. I've realized that while running a business--which is harder than I thought as a 19 year old--and going to school, AND working at the Sunmart Deli, it's hard to balance my life out!! School has ALWAYS been my #1 priority. I think teens these days are working too much. My mom insisted that I spend my college career without a job at all! I spent only a half semester in the freshman dorms. I absolutely, without a doubt, hated it! So I moved out with my brother and his girlfriend to a place just off campus. I began to look for jobs and my mom still insisted that I just take out a loan and live off THAT my college career... then when I graduate, I'll get a great job in a Hospital somewhere and THEN start earning the big bucks to pay off all my school debt! But I got a job instead. What if I ended up not having a job? Would I have a better GPA? Maybe my mom's right! Even though I earn twice as much money per month than I EVER have... I still wonder how much better my grades would be if I didn't have OTHER priorities. And what about everybody else? Would they feel less stressed and more confident in school if they didn't have a job?!


I don't think I have yet to find a GREAT topic about any of the essays we've done. I'm pretty confident I can write a decent paper, but I feel like I spend 1/4 of the time writing it, and 3/4 of the time thinking of a topic! When I begin to write my classification essay, like Jennifer said one day... mine sounded like a comparison essay! It may or may not be a good time to go talk to a tutor in the Learning Center for ideas!!

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I have to agree with Tashas Blog 4, i really enjoy readying the bryson essays! they are soo funny and its not really and assignment to read them because they are really enjoyable and practical. He talks about things that people only think of and would really consider writing about them, so when you are reading, you're thinking to yourself "how does he come up with this stuff" and how he puts it into words. I also think that it has help my writing out alot, and i seem to be improving with more i write, i believe it has alot to do with the bryson readings. I am looking forward for more readings and more outragous findings he has to talk about!

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When first starting the class I dreaded reading the Bryson essays, but I now love them. I look forward for reading these essays because they are so funny. He has such a fun way to write about the little things in life that we always seem to take for granted. Who would think to take something like your garbage disposal and write a hilarious story about it. These essays have also really help, especially with the classification essays we are to write. It really helps show that you can write classification essays in more than one way. He is such a good writer it is amazing that I have never heard of him before this class.
It is crazy to think that I actually look forward to an assignment in a writing class. I dread writing and everything that has to do with it usually. I have never had the best use of grammar or sentence structure. I have already seen an improvement with my writing and I hope it keeps going in the right direction.

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In class we read four Bryson essays that were supposed to give us a better understanding of how to classify items. This is supposed to help us in our classification essay. So we had to read pages seventeen through twenty, 47 through fifty, 59 through 62, and 218 through 221. I thought this was quite helpful. I got to see the different ways you can classify objects and different groups you can use. We were put in groups and our group had one of the four passages called "Well, doctor, I was just trying to lie down..." We had to find a set, scheme and three classes for each scheme. Our group did very well. I think we were the first group done, and this class activity furthered out knowledge on classification. I think that the Bryson essays are a huge help and are entertaining to read. Exspecially with out essay we read the outrageous things people get injured over like sheets, money, and clothes. I thought that this was a great assignment and I think the class gained further knowledge on it, because I know I did.

Workshops

The writing workshops done in class seem like, to me at least, to not help out all that much. It seems like everyone is just doing it because they have to and not to help out the writer. In my group it seems like we are just doing it to get it done and trying to get it done fast. We just seem to come up with about anything to just write down so we get it done with because it seems we are crunched for time. Then I get my paper back from other groups and it seems the same. I feel like the other group just wrote about anything down just to be over with it. I'm not sure what would be a way to fix this but it's just something I noticed. Maybe more time would help but that is pretty hard because class is only so long.

Papers

When I was working on my comparison essay, no matter how difficult it seemed to be once there was finally an idea in my head about what to do it on, the rest fell right into place. It seems like there is so much more to papers when they are first assigned, but when you actually sit down and think about it and let your hands type (or write) and when you are done, just going back and re-reading it. Taking the time to slowly make sure everything fits nicely, and the mistakes are corrected. In other classes I have had to write short essays, or papers, and they seem so hard, but once they are down on paper and ready to be turned in; I sometimes feel that they were almost to easy. With everything that must be put into a paper, they are nowhere near easy. Why does when you are working through things, and they get done it seems that it actually was easy? But when you really think about it, it was honestly hard? It seems to be somewhat of a conundrum to me.
Something else that was kind of on my mind was the fact of participation. Not just in one class have I noticed it, but in all of my classes. It is just the fact of how are you going to get to know people and become comfortable talking to others in the class, if you can not talk during class? Its been on my mind in alot of my classes. I know that I am not a shy, or quiet person, and that it is not as easy for everyone else as it is for me to talk. The way I look at it though, is how am I ever going to be comfortable with talking to my fellow students if no one is willing to talk unless called upon. I just do not understand somethings. Maybe it will come with age.

Class Points

There are sometimes I sit and wonder why people do not like to talk in class. It is not that bad of a thing to do. All that you need to do is talk,or read something so it is really easy. I guess that some people just can't handle talking in front or around people that they do not feel right about,they think that they are going to make fun of them because of something that they say or do. That is not always true,you have to take a risk and do it even if something is not right or if someone does not agree with you.