New Found Freedom

My experiences in ENC1101 were amazing, it felt like a new found freedom.   In high school we were given assignments by our teachers and we could only write about that exact topic.  I also went to a private school so our topics were approved by the headmaster so we were never able to write about controversial subjects.  Our first assignment in ENC1101 was the Crot.  I had never heard of the type of writing before and I did not know where to start.  After writing the first draft we had our conference with our teacher.  My teacher Brandi thought my paper was great, but was especially touched by my memories of my father.  She told me to rewrite the Crot focusing on memories only of my father, which in return opened up my whole ENC1101 experience.  Our next assignment was to create a magazine of our own, it could be based on our favorite magazine or a made up one.  I decided to test the boundaries and do my magazine based on Cosmopolitan.  The name of my article was The Most Desired Sex of Florida State University's College Students.  My class loved it and so didn't Brandi.  I realized at this point that I really was in college and I no longer needed to worry about what the headmaster would think of my writing.  We then moved on to poetry, which was certainly not my favorite subject.  We were taught different types of poetry and ways to interpret poems.  I actually took a liking to certain types of poetry after we finished it.  In between our assignments we also had journals on different subjects or related to our class discussions.  The only thing that I disliked out of my whole entire class was one particular girl who thought her ideas were always right and then she was better then everyone else, including Brandi.