Finally an A!

After months of working in this English 103 class I have finally received an A on a paper! Personally it was by far the paper that needed the most attention considering it was a research paper and I think that had a lot to do with it. I needed to give a paper the attention it deserved and up until this paper I was not doing that I think. Thanks to the difficulty level of this paper I was more in tuned to giving it the attention it needed to become an A paper. I think with this last paper I will be doing the same considering it is not necessarily complicated, but time consuming. With this new-found confidence I have acquired with my writing skills I feel hopeful with this next paper. I feel much more accomplished than I did after writing my past papers! 

The Multi-Genre Paper

I am actually very excited to write this next paper! I have thought a lot about what I should write about and the only idea I have come up with so far is inside the life of a sorority girl or inside the life of sorority recruitment. These may sound stupid, but after experiencing these things I feel as if it is something worth sharing. It was absolutely awful to see how many girls cried, were dirty rushed, and how many girls talked behind eachother's backs to get into a sorority. My personal experience was very interesting, and although it was not sad like some of the stories I heard, it is worth telling from my point of view. The politics that go behind rushing are so complicated an outsider would be totally lost. For instance; I am in Alpha Phi because a girl I do not particularly is in AGD because a girl she does not like is in Chi Omega. As I am writing about this it does sound very insignificant, but to me it was a great experience.

Working Out

Since I've gotten to college I have been terrified of gaining weight. My extended family is full of fairly large people because we are all naturally short so keeping off the weight is extremely difficult. At orientation for Ball State my dad leaned over to me and said, fyi I hope you are planning on working out because your aunt was your size when she got to ball state, and now my aunt is  fairly large woman. Everyone says the freshman 15 is a serious issue, and with my frame I am sure it would be if I was not eating fairly healthy and working out on a regular basis. I have not gained a single pound yet and I intend to keep it that way. I feel awful for the people who come back from school and have gained an ungodly amount of weight. Part of college is learning to balance studying, social activities, and your health. I feel as if I am doing a very good job so far, but hey, I am only a first semester freshman...