The Important Lessons of SUPA WRT 105
I was fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to take SUPA WRT 105 in my senior year of high school. During the summer before my last year, the title of this class scared the hell out of me. It was the first college class that I’ve taken, and I knew that it would end up being more beneficial to me than an AP course. Oh how I was right. I could never grasp the concepts of any AP course that I’ve taken throughout my entire high school experience. Oddly enough, my SUPA class was quite the opposite. Concepts in this class were easy, as I’m not too shabby at writing and finding motivation to write comes easy to me. But I know that my success in this class goes beyond those two things. It had more to do with learning how to open my mind to multiple perspectives, how to use personal experience to create better literary pieces, and how to dig deeper - or as we’d call it in class: finding the “so what?” The class was full of lessons that I’ll us...