High school English courses were mediocre. As a freshman in high school, writing papers was fun and exciting. And towards senior year writing papers became a chore. Hopefully college composition courses will be more interesting and eye-opening. High school robbed the fun in papers, and I believe college will be a fresh new start where papers will be fun to write again. Writing should be fun. It could be demanding for some people, and then for others it comes naturally, like rapping to their favorite songs. For those who struggle to meet the demands of writing, growth and improvement are a part of everyone’s process to becoming a better writer. That process should consist of the writer we were, the writer we are now, and the writer we want to become. I was a very independent writer in high school. Ideas would flow into my mind seamlessly. It was so seamless that I would just go on and on about something. I had this style of writing which my sophomore teacher pointed out to me. She said that I had a dark writing style, which I knew did not reflect my personality, but it revealed this mask that I had always put on when I wrote. And when I put on this mask to write, I saw the world in a negative perception. Then I had to stop putting on that mask when I challenged myself in an AP course …show more content…
I blame most of that on my last English teacher. His approach to English papers, to me, were self-destructive. Getting into groups, forcing four or five people to create one paper, is a challenge I wish never to do again. And after a whole year of writing group essays, my mind diminished to meet the demands of other minds that were not mine. I am exhausted from writing papers now, and honestly too tired to even finish this one. I wish I had the mojo that I had back in freshman year of high school, but now that college has started I am going to try to look at things in a brighter