This was not my first English class and I do not know that it will be my last. I do know that I have learned a lot from this class, a lot more than I have learned from any other English class that I have taken. It seems as if I have been in school forever and it also seems as if I have taken too many English classes to count. In elementary school, junior high and high school you have to take so many classes and many of them seems to repeat themselves, for example have taken Biology classes three times, once in junior high, once in high school and here at Antelope Valley College. To be honest taking an English class has always felt the same. I never really got something drastically different from each class. I think though that when I got out of high school i really assumed that every college class that I took would be so much more fulfilling and interesting but the truth is that many of them are not. I took an English 101 class and it was also online but I was really let down by it because I did not get very much out of it. It seemed as if the work was somewhat pointless and it did not really change the way I looked at English class or the way I approached writing. When it came time to take this English 102 class I really felt that it would be a risk because after taking that other English class and not really taking anything away from it, I was worried that not only would it be hard but it also would be really boring. I was really surprised however and glad to see how different this class was formatted though. From the first week when we were asked to introduce ourselves and give a brief overview of who we are and what we are about I felt that this really helped me, and im sure it helped everyone else too, it helped to feel that we were actually connected and interacting with real people. When it comes to online classes or projects, I think that it often seems as if you forget or fail to realize that you are interacting with other people. I really enjoyed the fact that although everything was done online, we all seemed to feel connected like in a real class that you physically go to. I enjoyed the fact that the majority of our assignments depended in part on the interactions w had with other class members. For example, I think that the Peer Draft Reviews that we had to do really allowed many of us to look at our own papers as compared to others and not only help those others to improve their own papers but it also helped us to improve on our own. So I would have to say that I am really glad that I took this class, even online, because I do think that it has helped me analyze not only education subjects but also life issues. A lot of our work depended on analysis, including self analysis, and I think many of us forget to do this sometimes because we have so many other things going on.