“You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible”

– Deepak K. Chopra

Hi Everyone

This type of class is very new to me and to be completely honest I was very scared to have to take a completely focused writing class. I have never been a good writer or much of a writer at all. I have never been able to express myself on paper like some people are able to do. So, when I found out I had to take a class dedicated to writing and expressing yourself you can imagine how scared I was. I have taken hard classes before this, but this was stepping out of my comfort zone. So instead of ignoring how I was feeling I decided to go to my advisor and talk to him about how I was feeling. He helped me see that I was actually very capable of this because I usually talk about how I feel very well and that the only difference with this class is that I just have to write down how I am feeling instead of talking about how I feel. Something my advisor suggested to me was, I treat this as a class within a class and talk to someone about what is happening in the class and for me to take notes while talking to my peer.

When it came time for me to look at my syllabi’s and get ready for my classes I actually felt pretty good about this class…until I saw the syllabus. I had a little bit of a panic attack because it seemed like I was way out of my element and was not going to be able to succeed in this class. But after looking over the syllabus again, I was able to see that it was not as hard as I thought it was going to be. Do not get me wrong I was still very worried about expressing myself and all the writing but, I felt like I would be able to have a handle on it. I also remembered that with the two degrees that I am going to have when I graduate, a Bachelor’s in Digital Forensics and an Associates in Cyber Security I would not be able to escape technical writing. In the grand scheme of thing, I am excited and scared for this class and how good it is going to be for me.

This class I feel like is going to boost my confidence with writing because this class is going to force me to write. I feel like sometimes that is the best way to learn a skill that does not come easy. For example, when someone is trying to learn a language, I have heard that going to the country and immersing yourself in the language is the best way to actually learn the language. This is because if you want something, need help going somewhere or anything at all you need to learn the language. So, to survive in the country you only have one option and that is to learn their language. So, for this class if I want to succeed in this class, I have to become a better technical writer and there is no if and or buts. This class will make me a better technical writer and just a better writer in general and that is going to be a skill that is going to be extremely useful for me in my future endeavors.

It is funny to think about how much I have actually learned from this class before my very first assignment or my very first “class”. I have learned that when things look the hard there is always a different way to look at things to make them better for you. Something else that I have come to realized, is that I cannot get in the way of my own success by not doing something that has been challenging for me in the past. Doing things that are difficult and pushing through them are the time that I learn the most and come out a better person then I was when I started.