Assignment #2 [Due: 2/29}

After reading through the Student Guide I have definitely learned a lot about what is expected of me in this course. Sometimes it is hard for me going into a class and just guessing what I'm going to need to do based on vague syllabus description. The Student Guide not only goes into deep description it also gives comments/advice from teachers and other students about the course. 

I think that this English class is going to help me a lot more than the previous english courses I have taken. We seem to have a good group of kids in our class, and having a teacher you feel comfortable around and comfortable reading what you write is always a big help. 

I am looking forward to learning a lot of the fundamentals that come with college writing. I was the yearbook editor for my high school, so I'm used to laid back high school writing. College leveled writing courses will be a challenge to me and take a lot of work based on what I read in the Student Guide, but I don't think I will ever feel as though my time has been wasted. 

I'm a little nervous that a board of people that we don't know and have never read any of our writing get to decide whether we pass or fail the class. The number of students that I hear that fail English 101 is sort of intimidating to me. The rules see very cut and dry and to the point so I'm hoping that if I follow the rules and guidelines and take the advice given in the Student Guide that I will only need to take the class once.

I think the difficulty of this class won't be the amount of writing in itself but more so the challenges of writing we will encounter. We will need to step out of our usual boundaries and try new writing skills. 

The things that we will learn throughout this course are things that we are going to keep with us throughout the rest of college and our lives. No one can ever be at a disadvantage for learning and becoming a better write. It will always be beneficial to us at some point in time.