In class writing 1

Reading is normally fairly positive for me.  When I read, my mind gets to travel to another world, a world that is far from reality and can take me away from what is on my mind.  Some of the best books that have given me positive reading experiences are the Pretty Little Liars book series.  These books are mysterious, suspenseful, and all around good.  They take me to another world, the world of Rosewood, Pennsylvania, where the main characters live.  I can live vicariously through the characters in these books and feel what they are feeling, feel all the emotions that the characters feel.  When this happens to me, it is a positive experience because I can imagine how other people live, and put myself in their shoes so when I face those situations in real life, I will know how to handle them and react in the appropriate ways.

Writing, on the other hand, gives me many negative experiences.  I rarely do well on papers, getting an average grade of a C.  My senior year of high school, I was in a college writing class, with the hardest grading teacher at my school.  We did many literary analysis papers, which are my weakest spot.  I might be good at reading, but when it comes to having to find symbols in books and stuff like that, it is very hard for me.  My brain does not like to work in creative and deep thinking ways, so trying to write like 4 literary analysis papers does not work well for me.  When we wrote exposition type papers, I did a little better, because I could choose my own topics, but my writing skill set is still not very strong, so I did not do much better, only a little better.  But the one positive experience from that class was our last paper, our argument paper.  I chose a topic that had really impacted my life and I was passionate about, so that paper did well for me.  I actually enjoyed writing that paper, because it made me feel like I knew what I was doing and what I was writing about, which does not normally happen to me.