· Currently, I am an English major. I love to write and discuss literature so I think that that English is a good fit for me. However, I never knew this until this year, my sophomore year of college. I am also a moth minor. I don’t know why, it just happens to be something I am good at. The field that I am most passionate about is education. I am an education minor even though I wish it was a major. I hope to graduate with a certificate to teach in New York. I am currently a tutor at a school district in East Governor. I assist fourth graders throughout the day. I enjoy it so much that I know I would love to flourish in the field of education.
· I am from Garden City, Long Island. Garden City is a suburban town right outside the New York City. It is at least six to seven hours south of Canton. Long Island is a very crowded place with a lot of people. I am never bored at home. There is always somewhere to go or something to do. I find Garden City to be completely different from Canton New York and yet I am still fond of both places.
· The mall is only five minutes away from my home. Because of the easy commute I enjoy to shop with my friends, a lot. I enjoy going to the gym, reading and hanging out with my family. For some reason I always tend to write I like going to the gym even though I hate it. But, if I don’t go then I wouldn’t be myself. So, I guess I do enjoy the gym after all.
· When I receive feedback on my work I never have a bad experience. I feel a person is only trying to help, not criticize. Every time I get feedback from professor it usually is things I can improve on and so on. When I get feedback from my peers, I am thankful for the help but I don’t always use it. I have gotten both types of feedback from previous workshops. I find workshops very helpful for a writer.
· The poets I enjoy are Walt Whitman and Robert Frost. I enjoy both the poets because Robert frost always seems to bring me back to my childhood. Walt Whitman was a true long Islander and experienced the time when New York City was growing. He worked for many different newspapers which I hope to do someday.
· I believe what makes poetry good is the underlying story of each and every poem. I like poems when they are written for songs because then I get to experience the real emotions. The voice of thought thrives throughout all poems and I really get to know a lot about the author as I read his or her works. I think I get to learn a lot about the author if the poems good because I have found many poems to contain a bias opinion. The variety of ideas read from a poem is what makes good poetry.
· I hope to learn the real truth behind what writing a poem is all about. I enjoyed learning a lot about poetry in high school. I want to understand all techniques of poetry like what happens behind the scenes and learn to enjoy every style poems are written in.