I've been through a lot in my life, more then most but not nearly as much as others. I feel like I can offer people a lot of stress relief by telling them what I have learned through all of my problems to hopefully help them combat theirs.
I have dealt with watching my father die when I was only 6 years old, I know what it is to work sunrise to sunset (I live on a farm), I understand that the bonds between siblings can be the strongest things we ever feel.
I have gone through the battle on cancer with my mother; I have shaved her head, helped her pick out her wig, fed her food only to hold a bucket as she puked it up minutes later. I watched a human being slowly die and I have been to my mother's funeral all before I finished my senior year of high school, what was supposed to be the greatest year of my life.
I'm in college now and also understand how much that can change a person. It is with all the events that have happened in my life- all the love I have experienced and all the love I have lost that I believe I can offer advice to another person, even if it is only a little.
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I am starting college this fall, and I filled out my schedule today. I have thought seriously about majoring in English, so my advisor suggested an online class called "Survey of World Literature" Part 1 of 2. AKA: English 251.
I took English 111 & 112 in high school through the Dual Enrollment program, and those were the 2 prerequisites for the class. I received an A in both courses, so I was confident that I was going to do well. However after looking at some online course syllabus's I found, I am a little less sure. I didn't recognize any of the works shown on some of the professor's lists, So now I am freaking out.
I'm just looking for any sort of reassurance or tips for this class from anyone who has taken it. Or what was studied and what I can expect. I would just like to have a general idea of what will be studied and what I can expect.
Thank you! :) (link)
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Hey! You took the prerequisites and they are designed to prepare you for this class then. However, please keep in mind that this will be completely different in college- even though the high school considered those courses to be at a college level, they are not
the same thing happened to me when I got into college- I found that english courses were much more difficult, I actually had to work for an "A" in class
because it's a 200lvl course most students will probably be sophmores. I took 200lvl my freshman year and found that at first I thought I was going to fail, but by the end of the semester I had an "A".
take the class, you can always drop it with no penalties for the first few weeks of school. if you get there and decide it is just too hard then leave, otherwise stay
just keep in mind that I failed my first 3 essays in my 20th century literature class but after I started to understand what the professor was looking for in our papers I was passing with flying colors
good luck!
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Thanks! I appreciate the help. I would just like to add that my Dual Enrollment class was an actual college class. I took it online, and my professor was one of the English professors at the college I am going to attend. So hopefully *fingers crossed* it will be okay. :]
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