Chapter 10: It May Not Be Perfect...But Nothing Is

This week we finished up the presentations for our Career Research Project. Although I was nervous when I did mine, I really enjoyed watching everyone's presentation. It was really cool to see what everyone is interested, and see what they're passionate about. I loved that I learned something new from each presentation, even if I had been exposed to the topic before. I will also enjoy reading everyone's paper, although I'm not a big fan of editing. But I know that I will be grateful to have so many edits, and so that means that I have to do that many edits. Even though I didn't have to post my draft until tomorrow I wanted to get it done before I go home tomorrow. Plus, it will give me more time to read my group mates papers because then I can start reading them tomorrow. I'm excited to learn even more about the topics of the people in my group. I know I will enjoy it because I wouldn't normally read or learn about a lot of my classmate's topics. I feel really good overall about my paper, I know it's not perfect, but nothing is and I know that through group workshops my paper will get a lot stronger. I am grateful that I will have so many edits because this is my first research paper in college, and I want to get it as close to perfect as I can, and that means I'm going to need some help. I also know that although I normally do really well on my papers, college is a whole new level and I want to be prepared that I may not do as fantastic as I want to, even though I know I'll do at least a good job because of the effort I've put into it. That's why I'm doing these extra credit blogs, I don't mind doing them, but I want to do them because every little bit helps when you're striving for As. Although it would be cool to read everyone papers just to learn more and see what they have to say, I'm glad we each only have to read four. This is better because it's going to be time consuming when each paper is supposed to be eight to ten pages and we have to do peer reviews on each, I feel for English teachers who have to grade hundreds of papers like these throughout a year. Which is part of the reason why I don't want to be one, although as I writer I will have to write and editor all of my hundreds of pages.