Brief Experience.

Coming into this English class I had an idea of what it may have been about, but it turns out I was completely wrong. Before college most english classes assigned a reading and we were supposed to recite the information back to the teacher. That was how they knew that we had absorbed some type of information. I guess  in all of our different responses the teacher could get an idea of who we were through our answers. But in this college course it seems like you wanted us to tell you who we are. I know who I am and what I like, but I would NEVER use anything "scholarly" to define myself. I think this is where I had a lot of trouble. Asking me to pull information about my major was a total throw off because I am undeclared.

Anyhow I did learn to step back from my work. Sometimes the best thing to do when writing a paper is just to stop, forget about it, and come back to it at a later day/time. I have found that once I get my ideas on paper I think I have written GOLD. It is not until I look at the paper again that I can make better changes.

I also found "invisible narratives" to be interesting, although to say I was just introduced to that idea would be a stretch. Being a black male in college is an "invisible narrative" of it own. I am like a unicorn at the end of a rainbow. There are not more then three African americans total that I have met total per semester, which is ridiculous. I tend to be the only one in majority of my classes but who REALLY questions why that is or is it more of obscene matter that I am there. I do not know, nor do I care.

I tend to think of things that I feel most people wont. Other times I think of what other people think about and wonder if my thoughts are bizarre. Who is to know... No one Really speaks their mind. One of my thoughts is that the people who think too much or have ideas that seem far fetched are really the most intelligent. It is the people who cant think the way you do who would call you crazy because they cannot comprehend...    Enough of that.

I just realized that I spend a lot of time thinking, but maybe its not about the right things.