English Class Flashbacks and a Semester of Memories

Hi there. How have you been? Yes, you. I am talking to you the last time I checked. Aren’t you reading my paper now as the seconds tick by on your stop watch? Today marks the first week in May and I cannot believe how the time has flown by so fast. Where did all those weeks go? What happened to all of those English classes? I remember like it was yesterday in one of the first English classes when I was told that this English class was not going to be like any ordinary high school writing class…
Looking down at the floor next to this very same laptop that I am writing from in the library, I see my trusty old and withered friends; my rustic and badly tattered book bag and my notebook, whose pages are torn and at this point in the spring semester, barely decipherable. When I look at the scribbles in my notebook, and I use the word “scribbles” loosely, a dry smile comes to my face. I remember like it was yesterday when we, the students of Darlene Gold’s English class first learned about the Invention, Arrangement, and Revision Strategies… 

Out of all the students in the class that I can remember, hardly any in the class are English majors. Most of them are like me, taking this English 115 class to fulfill a general education requirement and hopefully get a Grade booster in our overall average. Well without regret, I can ecstatically say that I have no regrets about taking this class, a play on word usage as one might call it. Or perhaps you might want to call it an arrangement strategy, one of the few things that I actually am taking away from this class. I remember like it was yesterday when we read our first long boring English piece in class…