121 Reflective letter

Dear Marlen,

How have you been? Now I knew coming into English 121 I would most likely have a pretty hefty work load. My estimate of hefty was a complete understatement. That’s no problem though. I feel like I doing my best for a recent student stuck in a Physic – Pre-engineering major who realized this is NOT for him. So between all these classes I still enjoy doing all your work the most. I’ve always loved coming to your class. They’re fun, exciting and so much different. The whole entire structure of your courses just amazes me how it all comes together for some greater bigger meaning. Like in 101 with your whole sense structure and how we use all those papers in the end for an auto ethnography was really cool. It was a lot of writing but like I have said before, your class really made writing papers easier and at time enjoyable.
In this class based on the monomyth and archetypes has blown me away too. It is like I find myself looking for all these stages and personalities in everything now. Which is good for we need a good understanding of this all. I know after this class it will continue on with my own analysis of movies and books I come across.
It was no surprise to transfer from a class full of papers and writing styles to a class full of reading and analyzing all this reading. This is where my biggest problem comes in. Would you ever guess that I am really not that quite? Also, that I do actually talk and become social. I can’t put my finger on why but I seem so intimated in your class. You are always prompting such deep in depth questions and we need to make connections to everything we are studying. Hearing all the students making these amazing connections and them hitting the nail on the head leaves me not wanting to put my two sense in. I have never analyzed readings well at all. I mean I can find connections to obvious bits of literature but I am not sure I can go in depth like you and most students do. Well at least on the spot I can’t. Having time to think about it I can make connections in the blogs and in my poems but in class is when I’m scared. On the contrary though, you turned me into a kid who hate, despises, and wants to kill the inventor of papers to a person who can find joy in it and tackle it in many different ways. I hope to feel more confident by the end of this class like I did in 121. I think that is why I chose to go another semester with you knowing that I would have a shit load of work. You had a big impact on me last year so hey, why the hell not take Marlen’s class again.
All in all I think you know how I feel about your class this year. Nothing bad just me trying to take on a incredibly hard major, with and incredibly hard but one of my greatest teachers. With a little more time management I feel confident I can handle this class and get plenty more learning experiences from it as well.

Sincerely,

Andrew Singer