Reflection Essay

This first semester of my freshman has been a very interested trip indeed. I have learned so much in the short amount of time that I have spent here at Georgia Southern University. I feel as if I have grown, not only as a student, but as a person as well. I have met many new people, made many new friends, and learned many new things. I have so much in my English class. I thought I knew everything there was to know about writing, but I was very wrong. However, I have now learned how to improve on my writing skills, how to write better grammatically correct sentences, and how to use better verb usage. When I came into this semester as a freshman I was very confident in the caliber of my writing. However, my ego was soon crushed shortly thereafter. Even though my writing skills had been very good amongst my fellow peers in high school, at the university level they were merely average. I had to do something quick to learn how improve on my writing skills. With the help of my teacher, I have made tremendous improvements and strides on my writing skills. I believe that I am writing the best papers that I have ever written in my life. I am avidly anticipating the beginning of next semester when I take English 1102, because I cannot wait to see my writing skills improve again. When writing, it is very important that your sentences are grammatically correct. Nothing can ruin a paper faster than a couple of incorrect grammatical errors. I was good about not making any grammatical errors in my papers in high school. However, when I started writing papers in college, I realized that there are so many more ways to make grammatical errors. There are ways that I did not even dream were possible. Thanks to my English 1101 professor, I was able to pick up on these new and strange errors and able to recognize them and correct them. I have always been very proud of my vast vocabulary. I would show off in high school and at home and use big words and show everybody my genius verbiage. I regarded myself as one of the best, and I did not think that there was much that I could improve. Once again, I was wrong. I realized, yet again, that what was exceptionally above average in high school was merely mediocre in college. I needed to get adjusted to this new system and take my writing to another level. Hopefully, I have done so this semester. If not, I hope I will be able to do so next semester in English 1102. In just one semester I learned so much about writing that I just cannot fathom it sometimes. I improved my writing skills, I now write better grammatically correct sentences, also and have a better verb usage. I will forever cherish this first semester throughout my college career as an eye-opening experience and the re-birth of my writing career. I came into college as a boy that was writing basic and simple papers. Now, I am emerging into a man that is writing sophisticated papers at an exceptional level.