Wow, where to begin with my fears about coming into this course.. well the first day I was very scared of Marlen and believed that this was going to be one of the hardest if not the hardest class I have taken yet at IUP, I believe it was the hardest for the fact that I couldn’t bull shit anything and it was very time-consuming. I was really worried that I wasn’t going to find a topic at first that I was really interested in, then I felt that I wasn’t going to be able to bring out what I wanted to in my writing. But after all my work load started to build up this class really pushed me to work harder and achieve something, because of how Marlen would push us and tell us this was going to be published and after this class maybe we would be known as an author/researcher. So I somewhat learned to not procrastinate, yes I still do it time to time when I have other things that are more important then a homework assignment but I now get my work done.. on time, usually. After this class it was really the last straw i needed to know that i did want to change my major into something english related. I have decided to change my major into Journalism and minor in communications, where I can hopefully enjoy the major and make a career out of it. My proudest moment in this course was honestly loving this class so much I only missed two days and if I didn’t have to of missed them I wouldn’t have, I’ve never only missed two classes in any of my other classes, which showed to me I enjoyed english and I enjoyed coming to class and participating. I think the thing that will most stick with me the most is Marlen for being such a great teacher and really believing in all of us Thanks Marlen!