Week 16

This is a goodbye post. I feel really complicated now; actually I don’t know how to feel. I feel amazingly free after a tough year but I am also a bit sad about leaving my school and friends tomorrow. No matter how demanding the year was, it was that much great with lots of new and great experiences. I feel really lucky and happy for having three years more in here.

This week we had our Comm. 101 final exam and we wrote an essay in three hours as I said before. The topic was not difficult and we could easily use the texts given us before. But I was not able to think quickly in the exam so I spent first hour by thinking about the topic without writing anything. Then I spent rest of the time on trying to write as fast as possible. It was my fault not to use the time effectively but there is nothing to do now. I can only wait for the result.

Overall, studying Comm. 101 with Mr. O’Regan was a good experience and my classmates were all nice people. I will also take Comm. 102 from Mr. O’Regan in summer school so I hope it will be another good experience for me. I will miss Comm. 101 Section 8.

Goodbye…

Week 15

This was the best week of the year because we had the last lectures of the year. Now we are studying for our final exams. First of the final exams will be Comm. 101 and we will write an essay in 3 hours. I think it will be a bit demanding to write in 3 hours with no break but we can handle.

On Tuesday, we got the feedback of our second essay’s final draft and when I got mine I was very pleased because I got 91. My first grade was also 91 and now I want to pass Comm. 101 with an A. In the first week of the course I also wrote in my blog that I had been dreaming about getting an A at the end of the course and now I feel really close. But I know that everything is still in Mr. O’Regan’s hands because we still have 41 points not given yet including the final exam.

On Thursday, we talked about the final exam: what we have to do before and during the exam. Because it was not allowed, we didn’t talk about the texts. But later there was a study session for the exam so we had the chance of discussing the texts with the teachers and asking our questions.

At the weekend, I read the texts again and now I feel ready for the exam. I will try to do my best. That’s all for now. Bye…

Week 14

Time has passed quickly and we are coming to the end. Comm. 101 has been one of the most demanding classes of this semester with its tasks. But following the instructions and using our intelligence have always helped us in Comm. 101.

On Tuesday, we talked about paragraph organization types and Mr. O’Regan gave a task about it: writing an essay. But it will be easier than the ones we did before because it will be a TWE type essay. It is due next Tuesday.

On Thursday, we handed in our second essay’s final draft and we got relaxed. So the class was very funny that day. Then we talked about quotation and we realized how complicated it is. We learned that we should be very careful while using a quote.

Everything went well in Comm. 101 until now and I hope the rest will also be nice. Now I have to go and do my Comm. homework as soon as possible because I have to prepare two presentations for my Hist. 245 and Turk. 100 classes this weekend. I am in a hurry because there will be limited time to study this weekend due to spring festival of our school.

That’s all for now. Bye.

Week 13

This week we had only one class on Tuesday because Thursday was holiday due to the 1st May chaos of Istanbul. But missing the Comm. 101 class was not a good thing because we would have been more informed about our second draft if we had had that class. However, it was a good chance to get relaxed.

On Tuesday, we discussed the common mistakes which we had done in our first drafts. Mr. O’Regan was a bit angry because he encountered the same mistakes again which he had seen in our first drafts before. He also gave us the homework grades which equal 5 % of the course by checking our notebooks’ being ready when the lesson started.

Now I am working on my essay again to make necessary changes for the second draft because on Tuesday I have a tutorial with Mr. O’Regan.

When I think about the Comm. 101 class, there has been a long time since it started and I have used the Internet much more than before I started taking this class. Although it is nice to use the Internet to do the tasks, it can easily make one distracted and make one spend many hours on it unnecessarily. So since I started to use it, I have always cared about only doing my tasks then shutting my computer down.

That is all for this week, see you later…