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My name is Olivia Hibler and I am a Child Life major at Ohio University.  As a child life specialist, I will be working in a children's hospital advocating for children and their families as well as normalizing their hospital stay the best I can.  I am from Pickerington, Ohio, which is a little over an hour away.  I am a junior this year and should graduate on time, but will then have to do an internship the summer after.

I really enjoyed my ENG 151 class.  We wrote many papers, but they were all around movies such as a movie analysis, synopsis, review, and a research paper.  We did a lot of peer reviewing and would all review one person's paper a week.  I felt it was good to get a lot of feedback.  What I thought was beneficial was we were able to choose what movies we wrote about most of the time.  It made the papers more enjoyable to write as well as made peer reviewing more enjoyable.  What I did not like was a lot of our grade was based on discussion.  I don't mind speaking in class, but some things I did not know the answer to, so it felt like I was being penalized.

From looking at the syllabus, I am really glad that we are using technology as a basis to the course.  I think it will make things easier to relate to and more enjoyable.  I think that the work does not seem too difficult, but not too easy either.  I am interested to find out more about the presentation and hoping we can choose our own topic.

What I hope to gain from this class is a new outlook on english.  When I think of an english class, I worry about how boring it may be and all of the papers I will have to write.  This class seems like it will provide me a better outlook.  My only concern is that I like having a guide on what papers should look like our be about, so when given free will, I worry that it will be wrong.