English 1100
25 August 2015
Prof. Young
Getting to know me
The type of sport I play is baseball. I have been playing baseball for around 11 years now. I am playing on trying to walk on the baseball team here at FDU. I will try my best to make the team. Also my favorite MLB team is the Yankees. The thing I am passionate about is playing baseball. I have been playing the game for a while and practicing a lot. What I do in my free time is watching baseball and sports center. I could go and watch sports center for hours a day. My nickname is Matt for short. But some of my friends call me Mattyice because during baseball I don't really make many errors and I am smooth as ice at 3rd base.
When I write, I have to have an outline. Having an outline makes it easier to write about my thoughts because my information is organized and thats the way I like. I was a good writer in high school. My teacher gave me one time to revise my essay to get a better grade. I felt like I needed to take the advantage and see how I could approve. I had many mistakes and questions I had to get done before handing a in a big paper. This revision of my paper may have gotten me 10 to 15 points more then handing in my first draft. I did learn grammar rules, structure and learned about the 5 paragraph structure. The type of music I listen to is rap and hip hop. My favorite artist is Logic. I do listen to Drake, J. Cole, G-Eazy, A$AP Rocky and many others but Logic is just my favorite. Logic is an up and coming rapper so many people won't know him that well. He is a white rapper and can rap as fast as Eminem. The reason I like him is because he is unknown and raps about his life in one of his latest album. He is from Gaitherburg, Maryland which is a rough area to live. He has dealt with his family selling drugs and if he should join that life just to make a few grand night to support his own family. But he did not go that way in his life. He would practice rapping anywhere he could like he did when he was working a Jiffy Lube. He just never gave up on rapping. In the album he would rap more about is life and most rappers don't do it as much and thats why I like him. I do use social media. I use it everyday but not as much as others because I can live without for a period of time.
What is the most important to me to learn this semester is to become a better writer and getting good grades. For me to become a better writer is good because that is my weakest aspect of me and I need improvement in the area. Becoming a better will make me a better speaker and get good grades. I rate myself a B-, because I am not the best writer I could be. It takes a good amount of time to produce a great paper. I have trouble writing a quick essay in a small amount for a big grade. I think this class will help me become a better writer.
