observation 1

Although I went to a very good high school, that I do believe helped prepare me for college, I have already begun to realize that it has left out important skills I need to succeed at Clemson. Last week, we started to go over poems and discuss them in depth. This was something that I was not really exposed to in high school. My school school English classes were focused mostly on reading and learning vocabulary for the SAT's. Discussing these poems forced me to critically think about these poems and form my own opinions. I started to realized that there are times in classes where there is not just one answer for something. Through all the discussion my class was able to think up a couple different explanations and analyzations for the poems. Doing activities like this in class gets me to thinking an having discusssions on what our opinions are can get people thinking and learning a lot more than usual.