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I had a little trouble this week with paying attention in class or participating full heartedly in the discussions that we were having mostly because of this virus that is going around school and that I just so happened to catch. By the end of class on Thursday I  was not getting a grasp on anything we were discussing in Paul's class. I thought the simulation was very interesting but some of the topics and ideas brought up were a little confusing or hard to comprehend because I wasn't giving it my full attention. Not because I didn't like the topic, but just because I was feeling so sick that my mind was more focused on sleep and hot tea.

However, during our Thursday discussion I did grasp a new understanding on these essays that we write every week. The last two essays I've written so far I worried about them being "acceptable." I'm so use to someone handing me a prompt and saying "this is your prompt, this is how you're specifically going to write your essay." So, needless to say, it's caused me to feel a little bit of pressure on these essays because I'm constantly worrying about if I'm writing about the right idea or the right topic. During Thursday class though, while reading others essays, I realized that there really is no right or wrong in how we want to write these essays. It is our own responsibility to choose if we write them creatively or analytically, first person or third person. There is no set prompt or specific way to how we should write in this class. We choose the direction we want our essays to go and we will not be scolded at our marked down if we decide to take a more unique/untraditional approach towards them.