If you ask me next Thursday if I would recommend a summer session at FSU to incoming freshmen, I will most likely say yes. Starting college is one of the most stressful events in our lives, at least for me. The thought of a new city that I didn’t know, and a massive campus filled with buildings I couldn’t tell apart if my life depended on it, definitely stressed me out. These things make up just one of the reasons why I came to Summer C this year: I wanted to get a feel for my new city, and home. Another benefit of coming to school early, is you get to earn some helpful credits in just six weeks. The ability to complete what should be a twelve-week course, in just six weeks, is a great accomplishment if I do say so myself. However, this can also be considered one of the biggest drawbacks of a summer session. With such a small amount of time here, everything is incredibly fast-paced, and you sometimes feel like you’ll never make it out of the pile of work you have to do. Another factor that complicates this situation even more, is when you don’t completely understand what you are supposed to be doing. I know in my case, project #3 might even be harder than project #2, because I don’t get the whole concept of how to present our multigenre project. The BBG was very helpful in giving me some ideas on what could be used in a multigenre project. I found it very helpful when they started listing some of the different options I could use for informative, narrative, and persuasive genres. However, once they got to assembling it all together to become one project, I became lost very fast. I know that with time (well, time is running out pretty fast, so I’m hoping for the best here), I will understand the project, but it is always slightly stressful in those few hours or days when you are befuddled as to what to do.
