What makes an object an object? 1/25/19
Mind Map of NYC 2/1/19
How does a map depict the city? 2/8/19
Hate crime as a commodity? 3/1/19
How do you as a student reflect on the college scam scandal? 3/15/19
Midterm Review 3/29/19
Writing a shitty first draft 4/12
As a college student with mental health problems who has contemplated suicide in the past the topic of college suicide is very personal to me. When starting my research for this essay the natural first thing to do is look up statistics and data of college suicides. I was baffled after researching and coming up with blanks on college suicides even making my search narrower I still couldn’t find data on the topic of college suicides and decided to research that instead. Finding out that universities don’t track these death shocked me and made me disgusted. It is something I have had first hand experience with and have heard stories from friends who have had suicides in their dorm buildings. This not only made me angry but sad.
Reflection of first draft 4/26:
Drafting and writing has always been a very stressful event for me. It is hard for me to just write because I get anxious about what I am writing is not good enough. This time I just tried to get my thoughts down in a cohesive manner and not worry about how good it was. The outline gave me a structure so I just wrote what I could. I don’t think it is perfect or nearly done (I only currently have 4 pages) and I know some things i wrote don’t make much sense but I do think I am headed somewhat in the right direction. I feel that I need to clean it up and make it longer.
Reflection on Final Draft 5/3/19:
I feel like my final draft turned out okay. I am pretty proud of it because I don’t feel like I am the best writer but I feel like my essay turned out pretty well. I feel like I could still do some more research and elaborate more on that. I feel like my writing process was good, I didn’t do it last minute and had multiple people try and help me with editing. I feel like next time I could probably spend a little more time on it and elaborate and edit it a little more.
