My progress in university 150 has made me to become a better writer. I have improved so much since the beginning of the week. My course goals from the beginning were to be a better writer, have a good word choice, and be better with sentence structure. All the journals that I have done through the past few weeks and the practice in class has made me better than when I was in high school. I would come to a point that I would be frustrated with myself because the writing process would not be easy. However, I had to understand that English wasn’t my first language and understand my complications. My attendance throughout the year was really good because I didn’t miss any classes or skipped. Also, being involved in every class was very important. If he or she missed or skipped class, then they could have missed something very important. If they skipped or missed a class, then students had a chance to come at the later time classes. It would still count you as present even though you showed up at a different time. I managed my time wisely, as soon as the essay were assigned, I started my essay right away. My classroom behavior throughout the semester was great. I didn’t really practice grammar online. In class we had lessons on grammar and practice on grammar. The professor gave us 10-15 minutes to complete the worksheet. After 10-15 minutes she walks around the class and asks who’s ready for the answer key.

     My classmate and I always tried our best on the grammar worksheets and we didn’t get the key until we finish the worksheet. One way that we practiced our writing skills were we did journals everyday, and we gave our rough draft to our professor to check it, then when we got it back we would know what to fix and what mistakes we made. I liked how the professor gave us a worksheet after she went over the grammar rules. This gave us  a chance to know what parts of the grammar we need to work on and how to use them in our essay. Completing the essays was no trouble for me because I started the day the professor assigned to us. Some of the essays were interesting to write about and some were to dry. However, I did better on my midterm than I accept it. The midterm was frustrating because I didn’t like how it was timed.

     Also, It didn’t give us a good topics to choose from. For me WordPress was a good idea for us to have. WordPress is a good way to write down journals, reflection of essays and the students progress in the class. Overall, University 150 is a good class to prepare students with all the needs for English 110. 

Journal #11

My favorite day of the week would be friday. Friday is my favorite week day because it’s the last day I have classes and I don’t have to worry about having classes the next day. It’s also a good day to get my homework done before saturday. In general, when they hear “it’s  friday”, everyone gets happy because it’s the end of the week. For some people fridays might mean “party time” or for others might mean to catch up on their sleep and to do homework. In general Fridays are just a good day.

Journal #12

A recent art gallery that I visited was MCA in Streetsville, Chicago. The art gallery was relatively big and really interesting. The MCA was one of the best art galleries I’ve seen. In some art galleries that I went to, we were allowed to touch the item, but in the MCA we couldn’t touch it at all or step over the red line. Overall, the experience of the MCA art gallery was relatively amazing. The MCA was one of the art galleries I’ve been to.

Journal #13

I like starbucks because in my opinion starbucks has good coffees and mochas. It also has a lot of drinks to choose from and lots of flavors to choose from. In addition, the other coffees I’ve tried were not good as starbucks. On the other hand, the coffees are strong, which is good when people need a strong coffee in the morning. I wouldn’t recommend starbucks if people don’t drink coffee or if they are just not a fan of coffee. Otherwise, starbucks is a good place for people to get their morning coffee at.

Journal #14

My phone has a special meaning to me because my phone has everything. It has the important people that I need to contact if I’m hurt or if I need help. My phone also keeps me on track and reminds me of my appointments. Nowadays people use their phones for directions, texting, social media, and other things that they might need. My phone also keeps me in touch with my friends that don’t live in the united States.

Journal #15

The most food in my fridge would be bacon, salad, and fruits. In my family we like our bacon and in addition, my parents eat salad for lunch. Especially we love our fruit. Mostly my siblings would eat most of the fruit in the house. If we don’t finish the fruit , then we keep it till someone eats it all. Whenever we go to the grocery store, we always end up getting a lot of fruit. Most of the . fruit that we get is gone before we get home. Fruits are also a good snacks if people feel hungry.