During my senior year of high school, I took a College Credit Plus Class, English Composition 1101.01. Since this class was a College Credit Plus Class, I received the college credit for the class even though I took it in a high school classroom setting. In this class I learned about how to write a college level paper, how to incorporate and cite sources, and how to make a claim and support it with evidence I found online and in books. The first paper we had to write was an Educational History Narrative. For this paper, we had to write and talk about a personal experience or feeling we have had in our lives regarding our education and why we had these feelings. The memory I chose to reflect on and talk about was my love for reading.
I really liked remembering and reflecting on my love for reading from a young age. I enjoyed asking my mom about how my love for reading started and what she remembered of it. It was interesting hearing her view on things and comparing them to my memories and views on how my love for reading began. I also enjoyed looking at how I have developed as a person because of this and how this feeling has affected my academic career.
This paper was my introduction to writing college essays and made me interested in taking more time to reflect on myself and to realize where I once was and how far I have come since then. This paper allowed me to examine and reflect on a portion of my life that seemed so insignificant at the time but ended up being one of the most influential times of my life for my academic career.