For the class, Journey through Literature, we had to write non-stop for ten minutes on our journals. We also had to create life compasses. With these compasses, we were supposed to rate from one to three how we were feeling emotionally, spiritually, mentally, and physically. At first writing in the journal was a bit hard for me. On various occasions throughout the ten minutes, I would stop briefly because I didn't know what else to write. I would reach a point where my mind would go completely blank. As I continued with the project it was easier and easier each time. I noticed that with each entry I could write more fluently than the previous one. After that, I tried to improve the quality of my writing. Instead of writing random things I was thinking about, like song lyrics or organic chemistry, I started to write more about my feelings and emotions. I tried to be productive with each entry, instead of writing pointless thoughts. Near the end, I was able to write about my feelings and deeper thoughts for ten minutes without stopping. The journal really helped me get in touch with my emotions and how I'm really feeling about certain situations. The life compass helped a lot, as well. Some days I thought I was feeling 100%. But, while I was doing the compass for that day, I realized that instead of getting a perfect score of twelve, I'd get an eight or nine. The compass helped me realize that some aspects of my life were not as good as they're supposed to be. This way I could fix these things that weren't perfect in order to improve my life and be happier. Another thing we had to do for this class was a multigenre project. This was the hardest thing for me to do since I'm not the creative type at all. I'm more of a math and science type of girl. Every time we would present our projects to the rest of the class I would always feel a little uncomfortable because everyone else's projects were so creative and beautifully done that it made my project look like it was done by a ten-year-old. I really do try to be creative and make my projects aesthetically pleasing, it's just really hard for me. Every time I have to do a creative project for any class I always stare at the finished result and think about what I can do to make it look better. I rarely ever come up with an answer to that question. This is why my projects always look so terrible. I feel sorry for anyone that had to look at them.
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