My personal writing for this class has really set me back because I have so much stuff I have to do this term and with all the things on my mind I never realized until just this week that this essay is different than the other essays I have done in the past. One of my class mates explained to me that this is a persuasive essay and not a research essay and now I’m having a hard time finding material to help me on my paper. This has just been a bad term for me, with me finding out that the career choice that I’m wanting to get into will be almost impossible for online students so now I have no clue what career I want to get into and wondering if I am wasting my time and money and that they raised my tuition fees an extra $120 and with me not working at the moment I don’t know how I can afford it. I just have so much on my mind that I’m not thinking clearly and I have two essays to do this term and I haven’t really started on either one.

In my personal writing process, I usually break it down by weeks and find all my material that I’m going to look over the first week, then I separate all the material in categories the second week. After everything is categorized I start on my first topic on the third week with my second and third topics on weeks four and five. Then I do my conclusion and reference page on week six. On week seven I do my thesis and my introduction and do all my editing on week eight before I turn it in to the writing center. I usually get my paper back on week nine where I do all the corrections the writing center found and turn it in to be graded.

My academic challenges will have to be to get caught up because I am so far behind. I need to stop thinking about my problems for now and just try to get through this term and worry about all those other things during our week off. I am doing ok in my comp class, however my other class is starting to get close to the point that I don’t make the grade I’m wanting. I am going to have to find some way to pull that grade up also.

The only way school is influencing my life at this moment is that I don’t think I can handle school and a job right now and because of that I am really hurting money wise. I would love to be able to do both but I’m afraid that will take away from my school time and cause me to start getting lower grades. I was told that a GPA is pretty much a personal accomplishment and that most employers never look at that but my GPA is my personal drive and as long as my grades stay where they are I’m going to keep working hard, it’s when they drop is when I will start giving up and I know this and that is why I have to focus on getting good grades.