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Hello, my name is Mathew Simon Peters and I am currently a senior at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. I am pursuing a Bachelor's of Specialized Studies Degree in Management and Psychology. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, I am a huge Cleveland sports fan. If I am not watching sports, I am playing them! I have played travel baseball, city basketball, club football, collegiate varsity lacrosse, collegiate ultimate frisbee, indoor co-ed volleyball, co-ed soccer, and I was also a varsity bowler in high school. I have spent each year of my collegiate career at a different university. Freshman year I was enrolled at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. I then transferred to Walsh University in North Canton, Ohio where I played lacrosse. I returned to Xavier my second semester sophomore year. For my junior year, I transferred to Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida where my brother was attending graduate school at the time. Finally, this year I transferred to Ohio University to complete my Bachelor's degree.

Since this is my first year at Ohio University, I was never enrolled in English 151. I have taken numerous english classes throughout my collegiate career though, and one recommendation I can make is to give the students more freedom. Let us control our curriculum to a certain extent for this course! I believe that will bring out true creativity and our imagination in our writing. If we have the freedom to choose what we write about, there is a better chance that we will feel a deeper connection to our writing.

This course design, for the most part, is on par with english courses I have taken in the past. The workload seems to be significant, but the topics do not seem mundane and should keep our attention. In the past I have seen the good, the bad and the ugly in my english courses. I have had courses that have exemplified my writing abilities and have truly sparked my motivation to write and participate. On the other hand, I have had courses that were like chewing on nails to get through. Boring, mundane, and structured to the point that my personality could not show through my writings. We were given tedious work that was at times completely irrelevant to the course's goals.

Honestly, I hope that this course is entertaining. I hope that this is a class that I look forward to going to twice a week. I understand that there is work to be done, and I also realize that there are topics that need to be covered at times that are somewhat boring and tedious, but I believe this course has a lot of potential to be both educational and entertaining from what I have seen thus far.