With Project 1 being at the beginning of the semester it was the easiest one for me to wrap my head around and get an understanding of. I enjoyed writing about my experience working in the hospital and relating it to the medical community. With my conference with Mat, I was able to fine-tune my writing and get help on those little aspects that I might not have fully pinpointed in my work. When the final draft came around I felt pretty good about the final product, the only thing I wasn't sure about was would it meet Mat’s standards. Doing a revision of this project I feel really did benefit me because I had the whole entire semester working with Mat and got to know him a little bit better and understand what he wants from us. During the revision, I was able to look at my writing and understand what was wrong and how to fix it which is really a plus in my book for this course.

This Project 2 was where my anxiety became a little too much for me this semester. Coupled with my chemistry class and the writing portion of this class made for a very anxious me. I never had to deal with something like this before in the past so when my anxiety came I felt really unprepared and like I was in a deep dark hole. Working through this project was good for me because it kept me on track of what I wanted to do in the future which is going into med school. I really enjoyed doing my interviews with the M2 student and the students applying to med school. I learned a lot of insight from them that I used in my project. The first draft during the conference I was a little confused on what I should do, I felt that making the word count with the topic I originally had was going to be hard and I just got a little lost. With Mat's help, I got a better understanding of Project 2 and how I can fit it to myself. When the final draft came around I was not entirely happy with my final product, as I feel it did not accurately portray my writing capabilities. But with everything that's been going on I am proud that I got it finished to the best of our abilities.

Going into Project 3 I was definitely confused, but it turned out to be my favorite project and one I wasn't stressed out about, thankfully. Choosing the genres was a little tricky because even if I understood what a genre was deciding which ones I wanted to use that I thought would best explain the medical school community was a little tricky. This project getting to explore genres and create them, in the long run, it really does help my understanding of genres which helped me better understand the class as a whole. Once I decided on my visual essay, advertisement, and flyer I was able to get a little more into the project because I do like creating things and being artistic. With the help of my dad who does advertisements in graphic design I thought I was a little better suited for this project.

In this class overall, I had a much harder time than I expected myself to because in high school even though I didn't really enjoy writing I did think I was pretty good at it. The combination of stress and writing in all my classes kind of became overwhelming for me in this semester. I began getting a lot of anxiety and had trouble finishing assignments in all of my classes, but in this one worst of all. The class and conferences tended to help sometimes when I had questions. When I would actually sit down to write if I got stumped or lost I would literally have an anxiety attack because I was just so confused and hadn't had this problem before. A solution came kind of late but I think it did help in some aspects of this. I started doing yoga for one which helped me to de-stress and relax, though this would only last for a couple of hours. I also somehow got into watching Bob Ross painting videos. Since these videos were about 30 minutes in length they were the perfect amount of time for me to relax between homework or assignments if I got anxious. It might be weird, but it would really help my anxiety when I would watch and listen to a man paint for 30 minutes to an hour. It helped me to calm down and relax so I could focus a little bit more on what I was doing. Now that the class is over I do have a lot of appreciation for the work that I've done. I wish I didn't have so much anxiety this semester and could have put a little bit more of myself into my writing as I had done previous years in high school. This class though stressful did really help me on an organization level as I had to work hard to make sure I got all my assignments done in the right time frame which is something that'll help me for my next few years in college.