I am Erica Ann Toussant and am a student at Ohio University located in beautiful Athens, Ohio. I came from a small town, Minerva, in Northeast Ohio. While it was a nice place to grow up, I am hoping the civil engineering degree I earn will take me somewhere new but not too far away from home. While I enjoy learning math and science related topics, in my free time, I love the arts. This ranges from reading novels, to photography, to oil painting, all the way to playing classical piano compositions.
My first college class was English 151 at 8am Monday thru Friday. While I always did well in English and writing, they were never my strongest subjects. English 151 was not extremely demanding , but I had a hard time with the class. Writing a paper takes me about twice as long as the average person. My mind blanks so I constantly get stuck and have a hard time starting againg. I found the professor's grades on my paper's rewarding since writing them took so much time. I found peer editing uncomfortable. My professor was all about peer editing, of course. I was surprised to find how my AP English class in high school seemed to be harder than my freshman English course.
Now, I am a junior in English 308J. The general amount of work and effort required does not seem as though it will exceed any other English related class I have taken. Writing papers and making a presentation is not completely new to me, but blogging and editing Wikipedia articles causes me to feel a little nervous because this is not something I have ever done. It also worries me that my grade is based fully on the opinion of the professor. All I really want to get is a nice grade. I may be naive, but I am not sure if this course really can impact how I finish off the rest of my college education and who I am in the professional world.
I am curious as to how this course will work out. So I am doing my best to keep an open mind about what is to come.
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