For your final journal entry of the semester, please reflect on your own experience of the past four months. You can focus specifically on English 2150 or think more broadly about your whole semester. Here are some questions to get you started. Don’t feel like you have to respond to all of them; they’re just here to get your creative juices going. Please be sure that your response is at least 350 words.
–What efforts and achievements (big or small, visible or invisible) do you want to acknowledge? Give yourself credit for all the things you did RIGHT this semester.
–Describe something important you learned through your reading and writing this semester. What is something that you will take with you into your future studies?
–What did you discover about yourself this semester? Maybe think about both strengths and areas of challenge that emerged for you this year.
–What has been the biggest disappointment about this shift to distance learning? What is your biggest regret or frustration?
–Describe a peer who has inspired you this year. What have you learned from him/her/them?
–What do you hope to do differently next semester? Why?
–How is the you of May 202o different from the person you were when you entered Baruch last August?
–What was your biggest screw-up this year? How can you let it go and move on?
–What advice do you have for incoming freshmen?
–What was the biggest surprise of your first year of college? (Your answer can NOT be “a global pandemic”!