Dear Kalli two weeks ago,

You're going to have a terrible time but it's still going to be some of the best weeks of your life. You are going to find a lot out about people here in one game of Never Have I Ever, and you won't make eye contact with them the rest of the week. Also you will realize you fogot your hair brush and have to bum one off your suite mates for a week a 3 days before your mom finally sends you one. You will also realize that they are incapable of making good breakfast here and they like to reuse food. You also will have to write a 6 page paper on watermelon. I'm still wondering how I did that. But all in all you're going to be really sad when you leave and even more sad when you open your suitcase and see your makeup exploded on the plane. 

From yourself,

Kalli

Blog 4

Dear younger Hailey,

These two weeks have been some of the most miserable days ever but at the same time have also been some pretty memorable days too.  These past two weeks have taught me many lessons that I can use in my schoolwork and in my studying habits.  These include learning time management, communicating with my professors, and NO procrastination.  This experience gave you an insight of what being a college student is like.  In your leadership for social change class you were taught the characteristics of becoming a leader and the actions you needed to make a permanent change to your community.  In your writing class, you were taught the proper way to write a paper and how to make your papers more interesting for your reader.  Not only did you see an improvement in your classes but you also see an improvement in your communications skills with your fellow piers.  You should be proud of yourself and proud of all the things you have accomplished in these two weeks.  Now just remember to continue working hard like this and try your best not to slack off!

Blog 4- Reflection

Dear Vanessa,

You would not believe how much you are going to learn in these two weeks. I bet you would have never thought that writing four thoughtful essays would be feasible but you accomplish it! I feel ready for my first AP English class next year because of how I have learned to clearly state my ideas, look for underlying assumptions and address them, and properly format my papers in MLA style. Also I bet you would have never thought that you would read comics and learn about how they are a great medium for storytelling and the thought process behind creating them. I hope you take with you all of the arguments about college and put that into action when you begin to apply for scholarships and colleges. All in all, this course will be a great experience for you and will help you grow as both a writer and individual.

Younger me, start off with, do your work on time! I can't stress this enough, because the night before the tests you're going to be stressing and cramming then realize it wasn't that much and you wouldn't have had to anything at all if you got it done the day before. You're going to learn about fumetti, start taking pictures now and get it out of the way while you can, You're gong to have make your own one, so start thinking of ideas now. Also, you're going to learn a lot about comics and the rhetoric used in them.

Dear younger Madison,
These past couple of weeks  have been tough and rough. You have made friends, and learned time management skills you never thought you could. The past two weeks have prepared you for your upcoming year here at Texas Lutheran University. During your writing class, Do the Write Thing you have been thought how to write a serious college paper. At the begging of these two weeks you had no idea how to use MLA format, or even write an intro to a paper. You have come a long way, and should be very proud of yourself! Congrats on making it through the two weeks, keep up the good work in the fall semester.

I never really have read comics. They aren't  something I was interested in as a child. The only comic I have read is called Smile. I don't even remember who wrote it. Everyone in my school was reading it, but they didn't have anymore copies at the book fair, so I had  to borrow it from someone. I remember I read it in like one day. It was actually really cool, because I was at the age where I wanted pictures not words. After I gave the copy back to the girl I went and found one for myself. I read it like 5 times in on month. It wasn't about super hero's. It was about a girl who fell and broke her tooth and her recovery. It sounds so weird when I am trying to explain it, but let me tell you in 2nd grade it was my favorite "book" ever. I wish I would have read more comics, because it was cool to only have pictures and a few words.

Blog #4

Dear Scheurer,

You walked into this summer program with no idea what to expect. Honestly, it started out rough. Registration was a pain and class schedules were disorganized. Very quickly though, things became situated, and you began to really like your classes. Your goals for this program were to make friends, get credits and, learn the campus and you easily accomplished all three. Along the way you learned techniques and facts that can help you in your future, not only for college, but for life. Personal Well-being with Dr. Sia was a very interesting class. She encouraged you to practice what you learn in class at home. She taught us Mindplay and RAFTing techniques to help cope with stress as well as Tai Chi, (which is definitely not as easy as it looks). Additionally, she introduced us to the myfitnesspal app to help track what we eat and when we exercise. She was really committed to making our futures as healthy and happy as possible.

In Professor Bost’s Do The Write Thing! course, you learn that there is so much more to writing than you thought in high school. For example, it is no longer the rhetorical triangle featuring ethos, pathos and logos. It is more like the rhetorical square when we add kairos into the mix.

Still, for ten days you stayed outside of your comfort zone and learned so many things along the way. It was an amazing experience.