Hello to all. My name is Jeanie. I was born in Houston, Tx and when I turned 14 we moved to Sugar Land, not to far away from home. But far enough to leave my closest friends behind. Maybe if I was old enough to drive I would have been able to keep in touch with them more often. But now since college has started I an always busy with school, even in the summer time.
I am an architecture student starting my fourth grueling year. The Architecture program is a five year plan. It has already been a hectic week! We are in the middle of a one week project, usually they give us a few weeks to a month or so, so everything is very fast paste righ now. Every one is freaking out. When everything is finalized on Monday, the results will show us the winners of the cash prize of up to $500. I would be so shocked if I was one of the winners. Every year for this 'sketch project' the majority of the students make C's, D's, and F's. Only a few students make A's and B's.
I have trouble sometimes with grammar. And if I am not assigned a topic to write about, I have even more trouble getting started. I would rather have an assigned topic rather than an open topic because I will at least have a starting point. That also ties in with research. There is such a broad genre of things you can research and write about that I almost always never know where to start. I feel as if my vocabulary is not wide enough to write a suffiecient paper. I still do not understand how to correctly write a bibliography. I have to sit down and think for hours and hours before I can start writing; it is not something that comes naturally to me. Sometimes I will only get a few sentences written in a few hours!
I would like to be able to better express my thoughts onto paper. If by understanding the different ways poets can express themselves, then maybe I can reapply their technique to better fit the way I think. I usually have a hard time discribing my thoughts, but if I am able to walk away of this course with the ability to clearly show my thinking on paper (if it is through literature or graphically) then I will be more confident in my furture work I do.
