I must’ve stumbled upon some sort of buried treasure or good luck charm because the first revision of my New Historical paper went really well, and Pennington had lots of positive comments. Wow.
Last blog post I said I hoped that I’d be back with a more exciting and upbeat post, and here we are! My New Historical draft is ready for my portfolio!
Of course, there are things I can do to make it better (and knowing me, I’ll put it through another revision), but it’s almost there which is relieving. Also, um, there are only two weeks left of the semester.
Yes, Elizabeth Swann, my reaction exactly. So if I don’t have enough time to do another revision, I won’t worry too much about it, but I think I’d like to just to polish some things up. But I’m pretty much done!
I think my analysis of “The Story of an Hour” was much better this time around; I tried to focus more closely on a woman’s issue at the time (fight for autonomy) and then analyze the story in that way. I ended up cutting out an entire paragraph and rewriting it, which wasn’t fun, but it was necessary.
I’m not going to lie, I’m so excited to put this essay behind me. It was by far my least favorite essay to write so far, and with only one left, I think this one will be my least favorite of the semester. I’m happy that I can consider it for my portfolio, though, because it’ll give me more options at the end of the semester.
In other good news, it’s Thanksgiving break tomorrow! It’ll be really nice to have a few days off to get some work done before the last week of classes. More importantly, I need sleep. Sweet, sweet sleep. Can’t wait. Might go take a nap right now, actually.
