What Did I Do Particularly Well In This Course

1. What did I do particularly well in this course, and why?

Being in this course has stretched my thinking and my creative abilities past what I thought I knew or was capable of. Living in a world today that tells us that you can only be one thing and not the other makes us choose a side on something that we think we are good and stick to that even when we are capable of doing a broader array of other things. Having a heavily mathematical and scientific background, my creativity was not called to light in so many instances even though as a child, I was an art lover and loved to create things that other people may have viewed as crazy but was nonetheless proud of. In this course, one thing that I did excellently was to embrace my creative
First, when I heard that we were doing a poem as our first assignment and that it was in the very first days of the course; I freaked out a lot. The main reason was that I thought that I am not a poet in any possible way, but also English is not my first language. I started studying and watching videos on how to be a good poet. Additionally, I could not trace my memory back to anything in particular that has impacted me deeply in the recent times. I listed all the things that I thought impacted me like my morning walks to school, watching the flowers in full bloom, watching the sunrise or the sunset, watching people walking around and wanting to know everything about them, their hopes, dreams, fears, and their views on different subjects. In addition, I thought of writing about my first snow experience four years ago because I thought it was fascinating. Obviously, my mind was wandering in so many directions that I could not settle on one thing that I wanted to write about. I had no idea where or how to begin in writing my first ever poem. My perfectionist self was standing in my way. I wanted my first poem to be perfect and that was the problem. I always struggle with perfectionism but it has become a cliché tool that many individuals use to praise themselves while some others including myself have to actually battle that on even the simplest of tasks. During my poem writing assignment, I realized how many ideas and creativity that my perfection chokes before they come in existence to the open world. In that very moment, I learned the case of perfectionism that I was dealing with. It was definitely not one that people use in interviews when asked about their weaknesses but the one that fits Maria Shriver’s description as she