First Posting

I guess my “English major” story starts pretty much where everyone else does, in high-school. I never really knew what I wanted as a career in life. English has always been my strong point. I’ve always received good grades and it seemed to always come easy to me. I figured that “you do what you know” and that’s when I decided to become an English teacher. My high school English experience is probably like everybody else’s. I can remember reading To Kill a Mocking Bird, Huckleberry Finn, Of Mice and Men, The Scarlet Letter, and Lord of the Flies. I also can remember reading a lot of Shakespeare, which is probably where my love for it had started.

Coming into college, I thought that I had the whole English thing down. My very first English class that I had took proved me very very wrong. I felt like I had hardly learned anything in high-school and that I was extremely unprepared for college English. But, since I always love a challenge, I stuck with it and grew to love it even more. After I had a “oh my god I don’t know what I want to do with my life” meltdown two semesters ago, I realized that teaching just wasn’t for me and I decided to minor in communications. I’m not exactly sure what I want to do with this just yet, but hopefully it will involve something with either writing for a news station or a news paper in the future.

I have to be completely honest here. Pardon my french, but this class quite frankly scares the hell out of me. I’ve heard from many others that it is extremely difficult and since I have never really thought of myself of having a “critical mind”, I’m quite terrified of it. I’m am not much for analyzing theories, but like I said I rarely give up and always am up for a challenge. Hopefully, since this is a requirement for my major, I will do well in this class and learn the information that I need to know to critically analyze literature, which is what I believe is needed for a deeper understanding of this subject.