Do The Best You Can

Do the Best You Can

By Shalayne Johnson

Chapter 1

Let me tell something about college. College is the school you go to after you graduate from High School. When you were a kid, they asked you what you wanted to be when you grew up. A police officer, a fireman or astronaut. But when you made it to high school you experiences something else that you love more. Whether you play basketball, football, or you were in the school plays. Often time people may want to do those things after high school.

For me, back in high school, I was in the school musicals and I played soccer. As a high schooler, I was thinking of pursuing acting when I went to college. But, after I took some art classes in high school, I discovered animation. I believed animation was the thing I wanted to go into, because I was good at drawing cartoon characters a lot. I heard Snow College had a good art program, and I thought I would do well in the animation program. I dream to work for Disney, because I’m a Disney Person.

I signed up for the art classes I needed, and some non art classes, like English and study skills. The art classes I was taking were 2D Design and Drawing. As I was walking to class, I said to myself, “Disney Animation Studio here I come!”

Unfortunately, I found out that 2D Design and Drawing were three hour classes, because of all the projects we had to do. During the lectures of 2d Design, I said to myself, “Wait, this wasn’t what I signed up for.” I thought we were going to draw animation characters, since hand drawn animation characters are 2d design. However we never drew animation and I never knew what the professor was talking about or what was going on.

In 2D design, we started out with the principles of Elements of Design. For our Line project we did some painting. I did a horrible job and was disappointed. My project was a line shape lamp that did not compare to the other students’ work. Our next projects were texture and shape. Unfortunately, they were horrible too because I was being lazy at my apartment with Netflix and food. I didn’t know we had to do outside work and thought I picked the wrong major, because we were drawing animation characters.

But when we got to the color half of the semester, everything changed. I got some help from nice classmates, everything went well, and I spend more time on projects. I was about ready to drop out of the that class, but some new friends encouraged me, and I was all caught up.

I did get a C and B on a couple of project. But we had to take quiz and I study really hard and I didn’t do well on them, but I still pass the class. I was scary was the final exam, I was scared that I was going to final it and get a low grade, but on the day of the final exam it got cancel and we had to work on our final project, and I still got an C in 2d Design.

In my Drawing Class, we had to draw figure like skull, lamps, and chairs. I was kind of a fast drawing and the professor kept telling me to restart and again and again. But I was a good drawer and I was mad at him, I want to say this to him “Let Me do My Work, How I wanted it.” But I didn’t. I was trying so hard of these drawing, and when we got to our final, I thought it was alright, I wasn’t as good as the other students.

When had to meet with the professor about our past drawing, he told me he didn’t like them, and he made me sad, because I work so hard on them, and I love to draw.

Then I started saying this to myself do the best you can in school. I also did well in my English 0900 class, and my study skills class. They were alright class, but English was a lot of paper, but I did okay on them, with some help in the writing lab. I made it through my First Semester at Snow College and I did well in my classes, and everything was okay.

Chapter 2

My second semester, I figured was going to be alright, like my first semester was. I signed up for Painting, Pre-Algebra, History 1700, and English 1010. On the first day back, I figured everything was going well, but in History we had to read these books and take a quiz on them. The professor did not grade late work, and because I missed the first assignment online, I started getting a lower grade. So I read the chapters he assigned us to read and I wrote a little essay on it and still failed. I was mad at the professor, I thought this was going to be easy, that is what my sister Alison told me, because she took this class at SUU. I decided to drop out of the class and go to the Human Development course.

In English 1010 we had to do weird paperwork and the professor was a goofball. I understand the work we did, I wrote a really good paper about my friend, but the professor didn’t like it and I was so mad. I loved my paper and the tutors that helped me had said it looked great.

I remember in my History 1700 class, I had some of my friends from my hometown in that class with me, and my roommates said they took that class with the same professor. So I went to History 1700 and dropped out of English 1010, and stayed in Human Development.

I talked to my History Professor about the essay quiz from the book, and he said it was open book. My day was made, and I stuck with it. So I read the chapter in the book we needed to read, took the essay quiz, and used the book for it. When I got done, my grade said 0/100, that meant he grade them. Everything was going great I thought for History, until we took our mid-term test. I studied hard on it, I was trying to focus, but I had too much fun around my apartment, I needed to study for my history test so I could do well, and get a good grade in that class. I was still failing on my essay quiz, and I was getting mad at this professor, I was about ready to ask him,“What kind of a history professor are you?,” but I didn’t.

During Spring break, we had to interview someone about history, for 30 minutes. I interviewed my, dad about the Civil War, and I thought it was 30 minutes to me it was. I typed up the paper about the interview, I showed it to my professor and he said it isn’t 30 minutes, and I was getting mad at him. So I had to interview my mom about her life at Snow College for extra credit. I typed up the paper, and turned it in. But I didn’t do well on it or on my midterm test. I don’t know why I went back to History 1700, I thought my friends and roommates would help me, but they had been busy with other stuff.

My other classes I was doing okay in, and getting good grades, it was just History I was struggling with. I had a talk with my roommates about it, and they told me to go to this counselor health department, and they will help you, and I did. I told them my troubles about History and what I could do to help. They told me to do the best I can, and that what I was gonna do, is do the best I can.

The History final was coming, it was my last chance to get a good grade it that class. So I studies as much as I could, and I studies over and over. My goal was to try to study for 3-4 hrs a day, because that was what my best friend does. I was doing well with my studying.

On the day of the final I was all prepared, and I tried to remember what I studied. When he handed out our final test, it was a written test and multiple choice, I was only good at the multiple choice question. Some of these were not what we learned, this was just like the midterm test. I was trying to relax, it just a test, do the best you can, that what I saying before and during the final. I kind of added some things that I studied and he said he was okay with it. When I got done I was thinking I did okay, all I could tell myself is do the best I can. I told the counselor in the health department about it, and she said just enjoy some ice cream, and I did.

I was happy finals were over, and I just enjoyed some happy time and some ice cream. The next day, I checked my grades and I failed my final, I was so mad and I wanted to go to his office and yell at him, but I didn’t. I worked so hard in history, I shouldn’t have not joined the class again. But my roommates told me that they failed that history class too, so we were even. My other classes, I got an A-, B and a F.

I thought when I was at Snow College, I would be going there for two years, because it is a two year school. I had it all planned out when I was starting school. My counselor told me that I was going to have to stay more then two years. I thought I had one of my Math and English credits, but I didn’t. I was taking lower level classes and my major classes. I didn’t know what I was doing, all I could do was ask for help from friends and roommates and tutors. That is what I was going to do for the next two years was ask for help, and everything will be alright for me, for the next year.

I did well my first year at Snow College, it was fun to make new friends, and go and ask for help and all I could tell myself was; “Do the Best you

Chapter 3

Next let's get to into my Third Semester at Snow College which wasn’t my favorite semester and I’ll tell you why. The classes I took were, Math 0900, English 1010, Digital Media, Fitness for Life, Dance Improv and Art Orientation (which was easy and a half semester class). Why this wasn’t my favorite, because Math and Digital Media wasn’t the best.

My Math Professor was too much trouble for me, because he dockes me points on my homework, if we wrote the work on the back of the paper, and don’t staple it, and I was like what. We took too much test and I got low grades on them. I was mad, after I studied hard and we use notecards and a calculator on our test. I ask my counselor for a tutor and I got a math tutor, she was nice and she help me study for my midterm test. After we study I was all ready, I had my notecard and calculator. I look at the problems and use my notecards to see what to do. When I got my test back I still got a low grade, and I was sad and mad. My math professor was telling us that don’t throw away our old test, keep them to study for the final, and I didn’t want to take the final, and failed it. I decided to move to a new math class, where I need less time and more help. So went back to this math program called the iLearn Program, which I took, last semester, and it help me and it suck. So I went to my counselor and they say I can switch math classes, and I was happy about it.

Now let's talk about Digital Media, I was all excited to take this class, because we were going to do animation, and like it. I said I wanted to go into animation, and this class was part of my major. Everything was going well, I was getting a B or C. But until October, we had to a picture of us in a image, it was called, “What We Want to be Good at”. I choose I want to good at Makeup. I wanted a picture of me as four character I like. They were Cleopatra, Audrey Hepburn, a character from the Musical Cats, and Queen Amidala from Star Wars. I draw them and show them what I wanted to look like. My Professor told me let do Andy Warhol style, and I was okay with. So on day we had do our project, I was all excited for it, I started first on my Cleopatra artwork, but my professor told me that not the Andy Warhol style. I saw what it look like, and then I took I can’t do it.

Next day, my professor told me we don’t have to do the Andy Warhol style, and I say alright. So my professor did my work for me, we just did the Cleopatra one, instead of the others I had, and I did more of the editing, and I was alright for it, and it turn out nice and love it.

The mid term project was the worst, because we did a set by set project. Of set you would see on airplanes for emergency. Mine was gonna do how to survive a blind date, which my Professor was okay with. How I wanted it to look was, your on a blind date, and your just getting know the person and at the end you found who the person is. But when we discuss them, they other students say this is too love story, and I was like what. My professor said why don’t you have survive kit instead, and I said fine. I was so mad at her, this was the worst project.

I was actually mad at my sister Alison. I had good schedule for this semester, I wanted to take a bowling class, because my friend took a bowling class, and I heard it was fun. But then my sister didn’t like my schedule and she didn’t want me to take the bowling class, because she know I was gonna meet my husband in that class, because my friend meet her husband in that class. I told her I didn’t want to Digital Media, I decided not to be an art major anymore. Because the professor won’t let me do my work I want to do, and they drove me nuts. I did missed pretty much little assignments we had do, in Digital Media, and I was getting really mad at her. One day I had a little talk with her and she told me your having too much trouble with your work, and she told me, that she don’t like my work I’m doing, and about that she had to do my Cleopatra project. She told me to get some tutor to help you, and I didn’t like what she said to me. I decided to drop out of Digital Media, and quite being an Art Major and never took another art class again. All I was good at with art is drawing outside of class, where no one tells me what to do.

Now let’s go back to Math, I was doing alright in that class, I still had my math tutor, and I got into the Math lab for some help. Everything was good well in that class. When we got our final, I decided to sign off social media and not watch TV until my final was done. Because my friend does it, and she sets goal for her finals, and that what I decided to do, and I did. I sign off social media, I made a little note that said, No FaceBook, Youtube, or Netflix. My Roommate has that on her laptop as well. I study all afternoon, and all night, I had notecards, and my calculate, and some food to help get some brain power. On the day of the final, I got together with my math tutor and we do some study, and she wrote some program for me to do, without the notecards, and I did well on them, and she said your ready and I was, I told myself do the best I can. I went to take my final, I turn off my phone, and I got my pencil, notecard, and calculate, and I took my final. After I was finish I went back look over it, and everything look great to me. I was proud of myself.

My English 1010 was okay, we did have some paperwork, and I did well on them. I went to the writing lab for some help, and they like my paperwork. I got a B in that Class, and I got an A in Dance Improv and Art Orientation. Everything went well for this half my third semester.

Chapter 4

My fourth semester was amazing, well after January and the start of February, here’s why. I signed up for Math 1010, Geography 2500, Poetry, Food, Yoga, and Stage Makeup. Everything was going well when I started at the beginning of the semester, the professors were nice and awesome. I thought I could handle it.

But in poetry wasn’t what I thought it was. I thought we were going to read poetry, study some shakespeare, and write our own poetry. But nope, we had to figure out the poetry, like which is a linking verb or a noun. It was like English in high school all over again. I talked to my poetry professor about it and she said we will be doing some shakespeare, and writing our own poetry. So I decided to stay in poetry, and everything was going well. Until the end of January, where we had to write an essay, which was a big hard essay, and I don’t do essay, and I didn’t do the essay before the due date. I had a talk with the professor, and there was nothing I could do expect go to the tutor center and I did, and they were confused. So I decided to drop out and never love Poetry again. I found out I needed a break from tons of paperwork, and enjoy the rest of my classes.

Next was Geography 2500 which was called People and Place of the World. I thought this class was gonna be fun, but we had to talk about anything related to Geography, and we had to do quizzes and Google map quiz. I was failing the quizzes, and they were long, and hard. The Google maps were the toughest, and I was failing those too. I was even failing the class, so I decided to drop out of this class, and my schedule didn’t turn out the way I wanted to.

I had drop out of two class, I needed another class for 13 credit hours. So I went to these career class, which was alright and fun, not too much paperwork.

Everything was going well for this semester, my classes were fun and easy. I still had my math tutor, and I was doing great in my math class, it was still ilearn program class. Yoga was helping me stay focused and doing well in my classes. I enjoyed my food class, I was getting better at cooking for my roommates.

But the best class I really love was my Makeup class, it was the best I ever took. I found out what I was going into. It was Makeup because it was so fun to look like a animal, a zombie, a butterfly, and the Blue Avatar. I was so proud of myself with makeup, I even watch Makeup video’s about how to do these character, whether it was a Witch, Vampire, or an Animal.

I only had one test final and that was math, and I did the same thing. I signed off social media, and chose not to watch tv. I studied and studied for like 4 hour and I study with my tutor. We did study the same thing last semester, where she wrote the problems, and I had to use my head to figure it out. I took my math final and I did alright.

I think this semester was better than last semester, because I love these classes, and the professor. I pass my classes, I got an A, B, and C in those classes. I finally found what I wanted to go into now.

Chapter 5

Now let’s move to Fall Semester of 2015, I was still at Snow College, because I need a more credits, like Sciences, English, retake History and one more Math classes and I would be done. I signed up for Human Biology, the lab, Math 1020, Courtship and Marriage, another Yoga class, and Ceramic. But I had to drop out of Ceramic, because I need to stay focus on my Generals more.

These class were not bad at all, they were alright. Math was great, I had a math partner to help me, and a new math tutor. We were rocking Math together, and we even studied for our tests together.

Human Biology wasn’t too bad, we didn’t do much, all we did was take notes, study for our test and take tests. The test were multiple choice, I study over and over one them, and I took the test and pass it. The lab was kind of the same thing, with some lectures, we did some exploring the human body, and some more fun stuff. We also took a test and I pass it.

Courtship and Marriage was kind of toughty one because we had paperwork, and took some notes and some test online and I didn’t do well. Because I study the notes and there were some question that we didn’t learn in class. I was like what. But I was doing well in that class, even those I already had a Wellness and Behave credit, from my Human Development class. I wanted to take these class because the professor was funny.

I only had four finals, which all my classes I had this semester. I did the same thing. Sign off Social media, and no Tv, so I can stay focused. I already took my Human Biology class and lab final, which was before final weeks, and I pass them. I took my Courtship and Marriage Final and Math final on the same day. But my Courtship and Marriage final got canceled, because my professor baby had RSPV, so he had to cancel it. My Math final wasn’t bad at all, I took a deep breath and say do the best I can. I had my notecard and caulators and my mind.

This was good another semester, I pass all my Class, especially Human Biology I got an A in the class and the lab. The rest of the classes I got a B and a C. But I did great this semester.

I also found out I’m graduating this year, I was so happy, I just need one more Science, English, Communication, and Retake History. The rest of my classes I’m done and over with. All I need to do is do the best I can.

Chapter 6

This was it, I was at my final semester of Snow College, and I wanted to try and work hard and do the best I can on this semester to graduate. The classes I signed up for, were Physical Geography 1020, English 1020, Mass Media, Business 900, and a Spin Class.

The only tough classes I had were English 1020, and Physical Geography. English 1020 we had to do tons of paperwork, but it mostly a research paper. I was gonna do my research paper on Audrey Hepburn, Jane Austen, and Madam Curie. But that was too much work when we got to midterm, so I decided to change my to Female Author which turn out much better and my english professor was okay with. When we got to our Final, I was going to give a presentation on goals, because my best Friend got me into goals. But the presentation was supposed to be about research paper, and he thought I was still doing Audrey Hepburn, and them. But I told him;“You do know I change my research paper,” so I did a presentation about jobs, jobs I want to go into. I did work hard in English 1020, I went to the writing lab and they helped me with my work and I still pass English 1020.

Now lets move to Physical Geography, which was a skype class. We had to skype the Professor in Richfield Ut, and High School Classes. This one was the worst one. Because we had to read the textbook, and do some quizzes.Which was a pain to me, because I took the quizzes and fail on them. I was mad at the professor, I told her I want to pass this class without taking quizzes. So they sent me a tutor to help me with my work and they told me I can redo my work and redo my quizzes. Which was great, and it help me learn a lot. Also we had some tutoring seminars, and they helped me with my work and got them turn in on. I retook my quizzes and I pass them. I was getting a good grade in that classes, until we had to take test which was really hard. But my tutor help study, and I went to take the test and I fail. I wanted my professor not to grade my test, but she said it was part of my grade. But I had to work hard and do the best I can in this class, so I can get a better grade.

I did the work, took the quizzies, and went to class so I could get a better grade. When we got to the final, I sign off social media and I did not watch tv. I study harder and harder on this test, and I when I took the test, I remember what I study and I think I got a 69%, so I must got a C or a D+ in that class. But I still Graduated.

My other classes were so bad, In Mass media, we just took notes, and did some test, and I pass the test, because they were Multiple Choice, and they were easy. In my Sign class, we just work out and did some Bicycle work out, and it was fun. I feel like I was losing weight.

In my Business class, I kind of went on a trip to Disneyworld and Harry Potter world, to learn about business, and I had fun. This class was an online class, and I had a good time, with some friends, and we did some paperwork, but it was easy.

In History we just took somes notes, do some quizzies, and some test. I didn’t pass the quizzes and test, But still pass the class. My Final grades in these class were C’s, A’s, and B’s. I did work hard in these classes, and did the best I can in these class. But I had a goal, for these classes, and it was to work hard and do the best I can.

I was happy I final graduated. I had so many experience at Snow College making new friends, work hard at Snow, I set some goals, working hard, and Doing the best I can. Because I want to continue my education, like these smart girls in these book I was reading, they also help with my education. But my friends told there more to life than just school. I said these to myself, “You know what she right, I got this. I’ll just do the best I can.” So I did.

Chapter 7

Now that I finished Snow College to got my Associates Degree, I transfer to SUU, to get by Bachelor Degree in Theater Art, I was still going into Theater Makeup and Costume. My sister Alison wanted me to minor in Communication, and I said okay.

The classes I sign up for were, Communication 1010, Acting 1, Costume and Construction, and Costume Lab, and Communication 2500. It seem like I was gonna be alright. The classes didn’t look to hard, but some of the theater students weren’t clean and they swore a lot. I don’t know what I got myself into, but I meet a couple of people who are LDS, because my religion is LDS. I knew I was gonna be alright.

The classes I had struggles with were Costume and Acting 1. Lets started with Acting. We hard to perform a 1 min Monologue, we couldn’t perform Shakespeare or a Musical one. I found one that a 1 sec monologue, and the Acting Professor said, this isn’t a 1 min Monologue. Then she made me cry, and nice girl name Mckaylie came and cheer me up. She also helped me find one and we did. The Acting Professor made me go last, and I had plenty of time to get this monologue memorized. On the day when I performed my monologue. My Acting Professor said this is perfected and much better.

For the rest of this class, we had do a blog, and I was coming up with some things I want to go into that related to theater, and she said it not long enough. So I kept trying to make it longer, and when I turned it in, and it still wasn’t long enough. I was getting mad at her, and so I decided to post some video from the best LDS show ever Studio C, and I did, it was kind of a pay back.

When we got to our final, we had to perform our two monologue, that we did throughout this semester. Also we had to have a Resume, which was pain for me to get, but I got help from a friend, to print it for me. My final went well, I got a B in that class.

Now let go into Costume and Construction, I was so excited to take this class, because I wanted to go into costume and sew some cosplay when I got to go Comic Con. But throughout the class, things didn’t go the way I wanted to be. I thought we were going to sew some costume, not find costume from stock, sew some little cross stitch, and do some dye. I didn’t know what I was going through, I feel like I need to drop out of this class.

I had a talk with my Costume Professor of some of the things I had trouble in this class. It was like the same I had with my Digital Media Professor, and then I decided to drop out and so I did. But then I went to look at some of trouble I had and remember what she said. It’s doesn’t hurt to ask for help, and then I decide to go back in costume, I had another talk with my Costume professor told her about my problems I had in the past. Then she understand and she let me back, and so I went back to Costume. I fix up the ones I didn’t do well on, and my grade was going up to a C, it was a D before. I even partnered up some people for the final, and I was okay with. Everything was going well for Costume, even though this class was experience, but I was happy I had a job, I work on Campus as Janitor every morning on weekday and I got pay, and I was happy. I still wanted to go into costume and decided to help with the play SUU was doing.

My two Communication class weren’t so bad at all. In Communication 1010, we just did some speeches, and some group work, and I got an A in that Class. My Communication 2500, we didn’t go to class much because we were on the Radio. I did a get job on the radio and I got an A in that class too. I didn’t take any test in my classes, or didn’t have any textbook after all. I did the best I can here at SUU, everything went well. It doesn’t hurt to ask for help at all.

Chapter 8

Spring Semester was half okay and half terrible, I’ll tell you why. I was all prepared for this semester. I had a great schedule, I sign up for Script Analysis, COMM 1020, Voice and Diction and Stage Makeup again. I want to take stage makeup again, because it what I want to go into, and I had a feeling it well gonna be like the stage makeup back at Snow College, but turns out I was wrong and here's why.

We had have papers, of our face with the makeup we had for injury, glamour, style and old age. I was like this isn’t the makeup class I wanted, but I took a deep breath and calm down. I was doing great on my makeup work, had some research of picture of needed, and I think this what I still want. Until we got to the final, the makeup professor told the class for the final that we need to do a character from a play, and I choose a character from the musical Cats, a new style makeup which looks great. I was all ready to go I had my paperwork, that we needed. I started putting the makeup on and everyone said that look great. But the makeup professor told me that I wasn’t suppose to copy another makeup artist work, and I was like what, I didn’t copy an artist work. I watch tons of makeup tutorial and they copy other makeup. The Professor made me so mad, I was just want to scream in her face, for ruining my Makeup plans. I look at my other work we did throughout this semester and I saw that she wrote I wasn’t suppose to copy other people work. I was like geez what with you, don’t see makeup work on Pinterest or Tutorial. My whole makeup career was destroyed. I had it all plan, and I wanted to go into it and work on broadway or any other theater companies. But I still pass the class and got a C.

Now let's talk about Script Analysis, we hardly didn’t do much we just read our textbooks and scripts of plays, and talk about them. It was a lot of reading, but I handle it well. But we had do some assignment online. I did the assignments but didn’t do well. The script analysis professor said I should go to the writing lab and get help and redo the assignment and my grade well go up. We also had to do write a report on plays that SUU did. We to ask so question about the plays, and so I did on the first one, but I didn’t do well.

I was sad, my grade was going down, but I remember it doesn’t hurt ask for help, and so I went to the writing lab the tutor help with my pass assignment for Script Analysis, andI turn them in and got a good grade on them.

On my second report on the next play we had to go see. I actually got help with the costumes and made some new friends. Which turn out great for me, even though I still had to work in the morning. But listening to the play over and over again, help understand it more for my report. I type up the paper, took it to the writing lab and the proofread it. I turn it in and got a good grade on it.

The final for this class, wasn’t bad, we just had to write theories about a play we read. I also got a C in this class.

Now let's talk about COMM 1050, also known as Writing for Communication. For this class we didn’t do much work, because the class kept getting cancel all lot. But we just do some paperwork, and read the textbook. I did pretty well in this class. Until after spring break, we had to type a little research paper about this Meals on Wheels things, and I was like okay, I can do it. I did some research, did the outline and turn it in, and got a good grade. I type up our rough draft and got it proofread, and fix it up and turn it in. But my Communication Professor said this is still an outline, and I said no it not. I got a C on it, so I still did well.

Next was the Final, we had to type up a paper about the three people we interview, about SUU. This I wanted a good grade on it, and I just need to do the best I can on this paper. So I type up the Q&A interview from the three people we interview. Next I type up the outline, turn them in and got a good grade on them. Next was the rough draft, got that type up, proofread, turn in. Then I fix up the rough draft and turn it in. And the professor still said this was still an outline, and I was so mad at her and my sister Alison for making take Communication for a minor. I got a B in this class.

I found out I don’t need a minor to graduated, so I decided to screw a minor and take some non-theater classes, that what my counselor told me.

My Voice and Diction class, was fun, we just did some voice work, and some letter sounds. We did a little bite of paperwork, and stuff. I got an A in that classes, because it was pretty fun.

I survive my First year at SUU, but still mad at my makeup professor for ruining my makeup career. Now I didn’t know if I wanted to stay at SUU or go home and stay at home and do some house work. But I decided to go back to SUU and fix some problem and “Do The Best I can,” that’s all I can tell myself.

Chapter 9

Fall semester at SUU was kind of alright, I didn’t have too bad class. I sign up for Literature and Culture, Theater Design 1, Stagecraft, Theater History and Movement 1. I was thinking of taking Capstone but I have to take that after my Upper Level Class. My Counselor gave my a paper of what upper level classes I still need to take to graduate, so I made a list of those classes I would take in the fall and spring, and then I would be done.

Everything was going well at first, but Theater History kind of drove me nuts, with some these 3-2-1 assignments on Canvas. I didn’t do well on them because I don’t have the textbook, and I though we didn’t need our textbook much. But we had done some group together, and my grades was going good. But the big work for this class was a research paper on theater history. It was a pain, I thought I was good with research and this one a toughy. We had to an proposal, and a literature review on it.

My paper was on Romeo and Juliet, because I want to know more about Romeo and Juliet. I found some good sources for this paper, and I knew I was gonna do well on this paper. I went to the writing lab and they help me. I got it turn and done and over with. Until I saw I got a low grade on it, and my grade was a C. I was in shock, I was scared that I might fail this class and retake it and I was not gonna graduated. But then they told me to go visit this counselor name Cameron, and so I did and she got me a mentor and we redo my proposal and my literature review. I quit freaking out and just say do the best I can. I got it turn in at final week, because that when it was due. My theater history professor was impress with and my final grade in that class was a B.

Now let’s talk about Theater Design. The professor for this class was my Makeup professor, and it was payback time for makeup classes. At first I thought this class was not much work, because we talking about Elements of Design, and Principle of Design. But when we got to October we had to do a 3D model, and I just did a flat surface paint work, because I wasn’t created as the rest of the student were. We do some set design and costume design, but along that way we had do some script analysis and other paperwork. I was pretty much doing this my way.

Before the final, I have a little talk with the professor because I was getting a F in that class, because of the 3D model. I’ve been trying to tell her I want to things I want to do. I told her that I was mad at her for ruining my Makeup career. She told me that your not gonna be a designer if your gonna do stuff you want to do. I was thinking if I wanted to still be a designer, after my makeup career was destroyed. But then I just realized something, their trying to help me. All my life I just doing stuff I wanted to do, all care about was myself. I went to Carmon and told her about, and my mentor help me with it. I calm down and said do the best I can.

I did work on my final and work so hard on it, and keep telling myself do the best I can. Everything turn out great, but my final grade was either a C- or D+. I decided to retake the class again so I can understand it more. My other classes were kind of touhy, but I pass them. In Literature and Culture we just do some reading and little bit of paperwork and I did well in that because my roommate was in that class. We work together on the work and I got a B on them. StageCraft was okay we had to do some test and some math, and I did okay in this class I got the same grade as my design class, C- or D+. We even had a lab to make shelf and frames, and I survived it. Movement was easy, all we did was do some yoga, and plotted, and it help stay calm with some my work. I did do the best I can for this semester, I did have some help in the writing lab, and help from some friends. I promise myself I would work hard and try to do the best I can for this semester.

Chapter 10

I found out I only have three more semester left at SUU, I was at my three to last semester. I have only like 4-5 more classes to graduate. I need to work my butt off on these classes. Also I needed to take this EDGE class in order to graduate.

The EDGE classes are online classes and we had to do a project on them for about 40 hrs. I decided to write a book, because I hear someone wrote a book. The EDGE classes won’t too hard all we have to do is do some discussion, meet with a mentor, read a textbook, and wrote a blog. We had to do some quiz which were open notes. I pass the classes with a C.

The other classes I sign for were Theater History 2, Dramaturgy, Directing 1, and I decided to retake my Theater Design. I had my mentor help me with the paperwork for Theater History 2, Dramaturgy and Theater Design. We were doing good, we made a good team doing some research and stuff.

I was scared for Theater History 2, because we have to read the chapter in same textbook as Theater History 1. So I decided to read the textbook, so I get a good grade in that class. Also we had done some group work for this class, so I can have a good grade in this class.

I also had the same professor for Dramaturgy, and we also do some group work and I was doing well in both Dramaturgy and Theater History 2. But Theater History 2 was the toughy one and why was that because of that research we had to continue working on last semester, and I wanted make should this research paper is done and turn and I would get a good grade on it. So I did I have done some research, trying to found what would work for my paper, so it make sense. I turn it in and got it done and over with. But when I saw my final grade it was a C- to a D+. I decided to retake the classes.

For Theater Design I have understand more what the professor was talking about. I have done the same work as last semester, with the help with my mentor, and I finally did a 3D model. I had a feeling everything was perfect, until I saw my grade on my assignment and this was not the grades I ask for. Plus we had to do some presentation and I got nerves on what I want to say. My grade was still a C- to D+, and I decided to retake to learn more.

For my Directing 1 class, we didn’t do much we just performed and took some notes, and did some paperwork on the plays that SUU did. I did so well in that class. I got a B in Directing, and Dramaturgy I got a C. I have done the best I can in these classes.

So now you have see my struggles throughout my college year. All the hard work and help I had. All the goals I made, because my friend taught me about goals. I just realize that the professor were trying to help understand all these things with art and theater, so I can figure out what I want to go into. I want to be like people who just focus on school, because they get 4.0, but my friend told me there more to life than just school got out and have fun. I had fun with some roommates and some friends. I also had to get done some school work too. It doesn't matter if I pass or not, as long as I do the best I can. That what I want you to do is, do the best you can.