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Descriptive Essay At Southern University

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Descriptive essays are designed to describe certain things. This thing could be an “object, person, place, experience, emotion, situation, etc” (Purdue 1). There’s many different ways a person could structure a descriptive essay. Some people introduce the object and describe it and some people begins with the descriptive portion and not mention the object until the end. Most people who doesn’t mention the object until the end gives the reader thinking space and a lot of suspicious and readiness to get to the end. Southern campus can blind someone with the colors gold and blue. As you take a walk around campus you will notice diversity in clothing. Southern has a stylish group of students who likes to define themselves through the clothes they decide to where. You know you are a jaguar when Wednesday is known as pretty Wednesday or when you’re trying to go to sleep but it has a car show in the circle. When you go to take a shower half the time, the water is cold and the drain is clogged causing a flood in the bathroom. …show more content…

College became quite different from high school. In High school teachers were required to put our grades online so we can see our progress or where we stand in a class. When I got to Southern it wasn’t a requirement, yet it was a choice. Well my chemistry lab teacher never handed any of her work back and when midterms came about she gave me a C. I went to talk to her, but she had the nastiest attitude I ever encountered. My teacher visit ended in an unresolved issue. She didn’t want anyone asking her about their grades and she told us it was too late in the semester to come to her office about grades. The last few weeks I stressed so much not knowing what I had in chemistry lab. I talked about to my friends and complained on how horrible of a teacher she was. On the day grades came out, I found out I was worried for nothing. I earned my A, but she still was the rudest teacher I ever

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