Well, first semester is over and we are still going strong. As my first semester back to school came to an end I was feeling pretty good about myself and about my grades even though I got an A- causing my GPA to drop from a 4.0 to a 3.9 but hey I am being optimistic and looking at it as I have gotten A's in all of my classes.
Class #4 is going great even though it is not really a class that I really wanted to take but I have to take it so Critical Thinking and Problem solving it is my friends. I was a little intimidated by the name of the course, however; I have been able to surprise myself with how well I am doing.
We are having to write a persuasive essay which causes us to have to do a peer review. I guess because I have been doing so well my teacher thought that I would be a great person to complete two peer reviews. So here I have sat for the last two nights after my children have gone to bed looking at essay's from two different classmates giving my opinion on what they could do better and what they did well.
I did not have a problem doing two essay's I found it rather easy and breezed through them thinking, "Is this supposed to be hard? Am I missing something? Do I need to be taking more time with this?" Only to realize that I was thinking way to much into it and just needed to get through it and get it done the best I could. And that is EXACTLY what I did.
Really the only thing that scares me about the peer review has nothing to do with what if the other person thinks I was too critical of them but what my peer reviewer is going to say about my essay. Knowing my luck I am going to get someone that is completely against the ownership or use of any kind of gun period. I am going to get the only tree hugging, ignorant, self-centered person that is in my class to do my review.
I guess we just look at the bright side and keep on pushing through and getting on to the next class.
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