Another Semester Under My Belt

Well, another semester is over and done with, and done well I might add. I get honestly ticked off when professors demand so little of students that you have no incentive to learn or try. For example, I had two english classes this semester (well I had three but I'm just using the two that illustrate the end of the spectrum) In one of my classes the class-load was probably the most demanding of my college life, and in the other it was one of the lightest. Partly because I needed to complete the work from my other classes, but also just because I knew there would be no consequences, I didn't try my best or do my best work in the latter class. In the class where much was demanded, I turned in my best work of my college life. This is also due to the difference in the focuses of the classes. One was a professional writing class and the other was a class where we workshopped things that classmates had written-- and it is always hard to be totally serious while workshopping something that the whole class really understands to be completed just minutes before the copies were distributed to classmates, and that most of the class is reading the piece as it is being workshopped and writing a hurried note about how they liked the third paragraph, but thought that it ended suddenly ( a common issue when class begins in half an hour, you are still writing the story and still need to run off 20 copies.)

Thankfully, this whole situation has allayed some of my fears about my abilities as a writing, and underscored just how much WMU needs to work on its English program. I suppose it is a common malady, but as my college life is coming closer and closer to being over, I am seeing more what I DON'T know rather than how far I have come. When I talk to other people who are in the same stage as I am they feel very similarly, so that makes me feel better. Also I'm freelancing some more, including some grantwriting, and I subscribe to idealist.com's job service and I daily get about 40-60 jobs which I am qualified to do with varying degrees of aptitude.

C'est la vie. Another semester begins on Monday, so I still have some time to gain more competence in areas where I have found I am lacking.