College life/Editorial

Over the past few weeks I had been extremly stressed with all of my midterm due back to back and trying to make sure that I am up to date in all of my classes and handing in my clas work on time. My grades so far are not to bad,but I could always do better. Next semester I feel as though I will do much better then I did this semester because I will already be a pro at College life and the college classes. As I stated in the first blog adjusting to college life has been very hard, but I am handling it better day by day. Things with my suitemates have gotten better, we all get along and I love each and every one of them. I am not as nervous as I used to about speaking up and participating in class disscussions. In fact, I participate in all of my classes and make sure that I am not just sitting there, I make sure that I am also participating. I have learned that if you just sit there in class and dont participate, or do not pay any attention at all to what the proffessor is saying then you might as well not be there because you are not learning anything and you are wasting your time. So far I really like College, like I said I am adjusting to it better day by day. I do not think I would go to any other College other then Rhode Island College because of the small class sizes, and the way that the professors show you that they care.
This week in our College Lecture Class we were expected to write an editorial. An editorial is almost like a persuasive essay, therefore we had tomkae an agrument about something that we were passionate about or something that we thought was important and right and explain in an essay why. I decided to write my essay on Native Americain govenment funding. The reason why I did this was because I am a native americain, and it was a topic that I feel very strongly about. All my life I would always hear people talk about Native Americains getting government assistance and how unfair that is, so in my essay I talked about why I thought we deserved the funding and how important it was to our people. The most challenging thing for me about writing this essay was orginizing my thoughts and making sure that everything I said was a good argument and had a point. At first I was not quite sure on how to do this, but after I made myself a web I got my thoughts orginized and I just started writng. I think that I did well on this essay, I know I put a lot of effort into it, and I treid to find as many soruces as possible.