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My Improvement In English 101
English Improvement I walked into English 101 head high, and confident in my abilities to write a very well structured and put-together essay. Scoring was very high on my English portion on the ACT left me with confidence and an enthusiasm for my soon to be English class’s. Boy was I never so stuck; this class was difficult, very difficult I was given the ol’e one two, I was out. You’re everywhere, you have no clear topic, and you ramble on too much. Those are a few of the very common problems I’m told I have. I believed I had finally corrected myself of the errors of my way, but to my disregard I had not. I still had a long ways to go. The hardest part about my English 101 was not the contexts but the time. I had decided to take the class at 8am, this and the fact that I screwed around my first two months of college really set me up for failure. I did not show up for class on a regular schedule and even when I did show up I slacked off, once again setting myself up to fail. Two months in I changed roommates, along with changing roommates I changed my priorities: school, work, study, and then my own pleasures. That was the turning point one I was hoping I would be able to get myself out of. I’m not saying it was easy or that I no longer had any late night 3am assignments that I turned in, what I am saying was …show more content…
I have written this essay to show my improvement in English, but not only English but also in life. While writing essays and doing assignment are something you may not do everyday in your life, the life lessons of discipline and achieving a goal you set no matter what it takes is. English may not always have the hardest work or quickest, something you can always count on it to make you calm down and think about what you are writing, why you are writing it, and provide a good background on the subject so it can be fully
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