I just read over the writer's blog assignment sheet again and realized that these posts are supposed to be more formal than I've been making them... Looking back at my other entries, I feel like I’ve fulfilled the requirements for each post (250 words, class related subject, thesis, etc), but I haven’t been making them as structured as they ( Read more... )

Since no official topic has been posted, I'm going to talk about what we discussed today: poetry. I personally don't understand why everyone was going on about it being "stupid" or "whiny" or deserving of hate. Honestly, I'm not a literary scholar and I don't have a passion for literature, but seriously? Poetry is easy.

Short stories and essays ( Read more... )

So, I just finished the book my group is reading, 1984 by George Orwell, and loved it. But that’s beside the point.  What’s important is that I had initially intended to read it once for pleasure, then once again for analysis, and, I’m not going to lie, I was extremely nervous about the analysis portion. But, something amazing happened! While I was ( Read more... )

I’ve already seen the film twice before seeing it in class; once in theaters and once in my 11th grade creative writing course. When I saw it in theaters, I was expecting it to be a typical Will Ferrell comedy, so I was let down. Therefore, when I saw it in my creative writing class again, I just wrote it off in my head as a boring, useless movie ( Read more... )

My name is Hani Gazal. This is my second semester at Collin and I hope to be at UT by next semester. I work at Cinemark West Plano that’s right off of Dallas Tollway as a cashier for concessions. It’s a pretty horrible job, but I’ve gotten more good out of it than bad.

I spend a lot of my time in Denton with my friends at UNT, so if you’re ever in ( Read more... )