Blog Assignment 1

Hi my name is Jonathan Cu. I am an Asian Amerian student here at USM. I graduated from LBHS (Long Beach High School) in 2006. Some sports I enjoyed at LBHS included cross country training, track team, and weight lifting. This is my third year of college and my current major is exercise science. This is, however, my first year attending school at USM. My two previous years of college were spent at Ole Miss in Oxford, MS. I transferred schools in order to be closer to my home on the coast. In the future I hope to get into the chiropracting program at the Parker College of Chiropracting in Dallas, TX.

I have very little experience in writing and honestly feel it is one of my weak points. Even though I only took this class because it is required, I am hoping that it will help improve my writing skills. This includes my grammar, writing technique, and structure of my essays.

Some examples of writing I have done in the past include a few research papers, speeches, and short story essays. In my past work experience I have never been required to write any documents or papers. The only documents I have written for a general audience was for a speech class I took last semester in which I had to write up a 10 minute speech for the class.

A good example of when writing "broke down" for me could be my journal entries in a philosophy class I took in the past. I had to interpret certain writings of past philosophers and basically write an essay for each one. I thought I did a good job on most of them but did not get the grade that I thought I deserved. I think that I didn't write to please my teacher and should've taken time to see what he was expecting in my writings.

To be honest I haven't found a type of writing/document which I enjoy doing. Writing has never been a fun experience for me and I usually find most papers to be difficult because my motivation to write them is usually very low. Hopefully this class can help me restore some motivation or give me some confidence in my writing. I do hope to get a good grade in this class but my lack of experience with writing makes me doubt that I can earn an A but I will hope for the best.