In high school I did everything in my power to test out of all college English and Writing courses. AP scores came back and I thought I was golden- no rhetoric classes for me! Then I took a look at my degree plan and saw that RHE 309 was required for Public Relation students. I made this wonderful observation over Christmas break and I was real excited about it (booo). I looked at the options and the only ones that would really fit with my schedule were either this class or the Rhetoric of Comic Books. I’m basically in love with history so my choice was an easy one…until I saw the beautiful words, “8 AM” out to the side of TTH- I could barely do my 10 AM last semester. While this stipulation would normally be considered a crippling factor in most of my other class scheduling debates, I was not about to sit in a class and talk about comic books. That’s just not me. I sucked up my hate for waking up and got on the waitlist, but then I was hit with a whole new fear.
My high school graduating class was only two hundred people and out of those two hundred, maybe only twenty actually cared about school. I come from a small, non-competitive high school. While there I was always considered to be a pretty good writer, so I had hoped that some college professor would never get the opportunity to prove that to be false. So I guess one reasons I’m here is to see if my writing can still hold merit when in a competitive academic environment. I have my fingers crossed.
However, and perhaps more importantly, I’m in this class because I love history and Vietnam is a subject that has always sparked a special interest with me. This war is often only glanced over and I really want to know more than a general history class can give me. I’m excited to be here and I look forward to this class every morning. Everyone in there seems really nice and Professor Piekarski seems to really care about us as students and what we have to say. I think it’s going to be an amazing class.
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