Well That’s a Wrap! 

What a semester it has been! I honestly don’t know where to start. I can definitely say for sure that I have grown as a writer. But it wasn’t all about sparkles and sunshine. There were many times when I wanted to quit and give up, but I knew that if I had done so, then I would have been a complete failure. I knew that I was better than this which is why I continued to strive and prove myself right that I was capable of undergoing stress and survive my first semester as a college student. I got the opportunity to learn about Freuds psychoanalytic concepts and how they created such an impact on people’s lives. It crazy to say that when the semester first started, I didn’t have a clue who Sigmund Freud was and what he did and why he was so important. But now that the semester is over, I tend to look at things different and myself as well. I’ve learned many things like to use many outside sources to prove my point, not to leave things for last minute and the beauty of writing. 

I got to analyze an artwork which I thought would be completely boring, but little did I know I had a blast. It was very insightful to do this because at first, I didn’t know what I was looking at and how to feel but the more I analyzed it and read about the painter, I understood it more. I had to really dig deep and get open minded on this one because it was extremely hard to get an emotion out of me. I was confused and frustrated at the same time because I had all of these mixed emotions and didn’t really know which of these feelings I truly felt. But after a long process of elimination, I finally came to one and then I was unstoppable after that. 

I’ve learned so much from building a thesis statement to simply finding outside sources so that I can back up my claim and reasoning. Also, I’ve controlled myself when it comes to the point when I’m too overwhelmed and think that I can’t handle things which then leads me to get stressed over the tiny minimal things which results in me breaking out. When this happens, I’m obviously not happy and then makes me do poorly on trying to finish off my essay strong. My goal has always been to make everything perfect but in reality, not is and will never be perfect. People are constantly wrong, learning and developing in a sense that they’re changing and finding new ways to seek for an easier and better solution.  

One thing that I loved and really took advantage of was when we peered reviewed each other’s essays. Once I’ve finished writing my essay, I thought that it was the best and excellent. However, little did I know that some of my grammar were wrong. My peers were able to correct me and give me ways to make my essay better but in a nice way, of course. I enjoyed this part because I’m not a great writer and I’m still learning each day on how expand my knowledge about the whole writing process. At first, I had such a tough time with understanding what a thesis statement really is but with the help of my professor’s and peer’s, I got a more in depth understanding of what it really means. I didn’t really know and was completely confused on how to clearly state my thesis so that it will be easy to pinpoint for the readers. For any writing piece that I have made in the past, my weakness and what I struggled with the most has always been creating my thesis. I would feed excuses after excuses into my brain which made me put a barricade and lead me to always doubt myself and not believe in me. 

When writing any type of essays, the beginning is always the most difficult part out of everything. Constructing the introduction is a challenge to make because you want to explain yourself for your purpose of doing this essay but also, you want to make it interesting enough so that the audience, or whoever will read it, will continue to read the whole entire essay. I was confused on how to state my thesis. For any writing piece that I have made in the past, my weakness has always been in creating my thesis. I’ve always thought that I wasn’t creative enough, but I knew that couldn’t be it. I guess I didn’t try hard enough, or I didn’t grasp the concept of it. 

Wow, what a great semester this has been. I grew so much as a person and of course, as a writer. I feel much more confident in myself and in my writing. Throughout this whole journey of learning the true beauty of writing, I had many supporters behind me who would help me out if I ever needed a hand or who would push me to do better and encourage me. I will always remember this because now I tend to be much more confident and strong when it comes to my writing. For sure, there will be many obstacles that I may encounter with, but this just means that I will know how to handle myself and not get stressed, or at least for a little bit.