Reflection...

English 102 with Professor Jennifer Mignano-Brady was a very well developed class, something that I would highly recommend to anyone who is in need of an English class that is able to teach you better writing skills and analysis of any sort of piece, from poetry to playwrights.  I very much enjoyed the class in the fact that any question I had was answered willingly and if I ever was unsure or uncertain of saying something, the class had a very welcoming environment and a laid back place to be able to share your thoughts.  I feel that my experience may have been different from that of other students, but I absolutely enjoyed the class from the lectures to the “fishbowls” that had us in a circle, able to throw in ideas whenever we saw fit, like a Socratic seminar.

To say that I have grown as a writer, poet, and speaker, would be an understatement.  I think my experiences in this class have prepared me more for what is to come in later years, whether it is another class later on in my college life or sometime in the future when I have a job that fits me as a person.  In 5 to 10 years and beyond, I see myself still writing on the side of whatever my profession may be.  Maybe much further down the road, about 15 to 20 years, I will be teaching my children how to read and write, maybe even a bit of explanation into the more complicated sides of writing and literature, like advanced rhetoric.  I honestly think this class has prepared me for real life more than I would have expected in the beginning.

In the beginning, I felt that it was just going to be another English class to breeze through, but was I wrong.  The challenges the professor gave us were great and they definitely pushed me to the limit of my potential and got me thinking outside the box.  I feel that the things I will take away from this class will be more knowledge of not just the material that we studied, but how the time period and the society around us shapes our bodies and minds.  Also, the more that we go into the society around us, the more we can understand about ourselves, like how the writing from the past deeply explains everything that happened back then.  If we were to read the literature coming out today, we can see how we are reflecting on the future.