For my assignment, I decided to visit my peer mentor and have an interview with her and I also met with one of my teachers to discuss a paper due in class this week. After I had done both, I had received some really good advice and it helped me to think about a lot of the things that I’m doing here at BYU.
When I met with my peer mentor, Amy Hansen, we discussed all of my classes this semester and whether I was doing ok with the workload and the stress. I told her I was dealing alright with the work and when I told her about my classes, she seemed really excited for me and she even wanted to know about some of them, like my scuba diving class and my cooking class. We got to talking and I think that she really might want to take them too. We also talked about her and the classes that she was taking. Talking with Amy got me to think about why I was at this school and it helped me to understand what I wanted to do with my time here at collage. We talked about my possible majors and it was nice to have someone to discuss it all with. Overall, I got to think hard about what classes I want to take in the future and what majors and career opportunities that I might want to take. Amy really is a nice girl and she and I got along very well.
For my second activity, I got to meet with my English teacher, Professor Christianson. We talked about my rhetorical analysis paper that I wrote for this week. It was all about Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech and the Republican convention. As we talked, I got to ask him for help on my thesis and my topic in general. He answered by helping me find a suitable thesis for my paper and we worked on the relevance of all of my points that I had made. It was really helpful to discuss it with him and I made my paper sound much better than before. He helped me learn how to connect all of my ideas and be able to put it all down on paper. From now on, I hope that I do get to meet with my teachers about our class activities and projects because I received some very useful help.
Lately, I have been seeking a lot of help in finding out what classes to take and what major to choose. It’s been such a long ongoing process and it really tends to stress me out. So, instead of just freaking out whenever the topic comes up, I have decided to meet the a counselor who can help me to decide what major and course of study will be best for me. My meeting is tomorrow afternoon and I am really excited to finally be able to talk to someone who knows about the school and the major’s that I can participate in. I’ve also needed some help with some of my assignments in school and I actually went by the writing center today in the hopes of getting some assistance on one of my papers. The line ended up being too long for me to stay but even getting myself to the writing center made me want to go back so that I could actually see what the people at the center had to offer. Overall, I think that this assignment has been a good experience for me and I’m glad that it was assigned.
