HUST 103 Reflection

I will admit, I definitely had a hard time warming up to this course. I was completely in the dark when I signed up for Lives and Times and had no idea what to expect. As it turned out to be very much like a literature course, I realized that I had a lot of room for improvement. I had never really learned about close reading and I learned how much I needed to work on it in order to succeed in the course. At the beginning of the semester I had no idea what was expected from me in my papers and even in my blogs simply because I had no experience with this rigorous of a literature course. I always thought that my high school and first year of college prepared me very well for what was to come in my sophomore year of college, but I came to find out that I never had a course that prepared me for this intricate of detail when it came to what was underneath the surface of the texts we read. I really feel like I have improved in close reading and participating in discussion and even in thinking of something to write about in the blogs. I am happy that I have had a class that has taught me how to dig deep into an author's writing and find what's underneath and then write about it. It sure has been a challenge and a frustration at times, but in the end I am glad that I have gained the knowledge that I did from our Lives and Times class.