Month: September 2021

I believe that technology is changing everyone that uses it for both the better and the worse, especially in regards to beauty standards and self confidence of social media users. It can be a double edged sword of either inspiration or self-doubt.
To help my research, I am going to utilize one of the most convicted criminals of comparison: Instagram. I am going to conduct a few-question poll on my story, which will be available to my followers for 24 hours.

The process of writing my first essay, like every other essay I’ve written in my lifetime, was produced through no planning. I usually just write down what I think on the paper, or in this case the Google dock, and go with that. I mean, don’t be worried, I do revise and edit as I go, but I usually don’t reread my work and I don’t plan. I wrote a draft, anything that came to mind, then took out what I didn’t like. I don’t think it could be improved purely because it works for me, and I’ve never really resulted in anything productive by planning. Hi, little interlude from me weeks after this was written, this whole paragraph is embarrassing. It feels like looking at a picture of your middle school eyebrows with all the knowledge you have now. End of interlude.

I wouldn’t change anything about the peer review; I actually enjoy the process and feedback. We’ve never really done anything like that in any of my other English classes, so it was very refreshing and helpful to be able to have another perspective.

I’m not sure of how proud I am of the final product, purely because I was unsure of what to write about at first, so this was me scraping together content. Hopefully it doesn’t show. Another interlude, newsflash: it does show. Sorry about that.

From writing this essay, I’ve learned that peer review is a necessity from here on out, it is very helpful and resourceful.

The most trouble I’ve had when writing essays has been staying on topic. I’m good at giving detail and elaborating, but I always tend to stray a bit off topic, or misinterpret a prompt. And since I try to drive my points home, my whole essay ends up sometimes talking about something entirely different from the prompt.
I’ve also struggled with the structure of essays. I haven’t been able to hit certain points in the middle of rhetorical analyses. I like to have examples, or clear rubrics of what points are to be hit, and what structure the essay must be conducted in.

I really couldn’t tell you what thesis brainstorming is because I wasn’t there Wednesday, but I’m just gonna write some key points that’ll appear in my essay.

My academic goals are to go to medical school and to (maybe) have published research. Career-wise, overall, it would be becoming a surgeon, but being a regular cardiologist would do, I guess.
There are really no doctors in the family, so I guess there was really no push from my family to go into the medical field. I’ve always loved helping people, which my mom has taught me to do, so if anything, that has contributed a lot to my goals.
I was never told what I should be, and was told to just do something that would make me happy, so I guess you can pretty well guess my race and economic status. A lot of my family has gone to college, and some has not, and both sides have all ended up successful. Either way, my family values hard work, so I guess their success comes from that.
The field of surgery (all medicine really) is male-dominated, so any social bump I face will be from that, I assume.
I’m pretty privileged that my gender is the only aspect that may be discriminated against while pursing my career.

There were many connections between Paper Tigers and From Between the World and Me. These included similarities of how students of color are treated in the school system by both their students and peers, and the pressure they face from their parents to have a better chance at life and wealth than they did. After synthesizing these two essays, I come to the conclusion that students of color have a difficult time attempting to adapt to a system that is built for white people in all aspects of education, social relationships, and opportunity.