My name is Eric Matthews, and I am from a place about twenty minutes west of Houston called Richmond, Texas. This is my first year at TCU after attending a local community college for two years, and I will be majoring in English as well as attempting to minor in RTVF. The curriculum here, as I can already see, is much more difficult than what I have been used to. So, I am just trying to get acclimated to this new environment.
The reason I decided to attend TCU is just that it is a good university that is commended in many areas. Also, I liked the idea of attending a smaller university because receiving help from a professor wouldn’t be as difficult as it would have been if I attended a university with 40,000 students.
If I were made chancellor of TCU I’m really not sure what I would change, because I don’t have too much knowledge of the campus yet. However, one thing I know I would change is the housing situation. There seems to not be enough places to put the students that are required to stay on campus, and there is a minimal chance of transfer students like myself receiving on-campus housing.
I think what makes good students and teachers is the relationship between the two. Along with wanting the students to do well, a teacher must truly love to share his or her knowledge with other people. But students must also show interest in the course and invest themselves in any activity that needs to be done.
The three people I would have dinner with are all deceased and fit into a category involving comedy. The first two, Bill Hicks and Mark Twain, interest me because they were both social critics that berated their modern cultures all while being absolutely hilarious. Bill Hicks with stand-up comedy, and Mark Twain with his literature. John Kennedy Toole is the final person I would like to have dinner with because his novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, is one of the only novels I have ever read that forced me to laugh out loud. That is my definition of powerful literature.
Asking me to state three things you all should know about me is hard. I guess the most important thing is that I am shy at first but then it is hard to shut me up. Also, I usually won’t speak to a person unless I am spoken to first. My ramblings are usually just directed in to space and not directly at someone. Lifting weights is usually how I relieve stress, so I know I’ll be doing a lot of it this year.
The three things I would like to know about you all is any three you would like to tell me. No certain aspect of a person is more important than the other.
I was inserted into this course mainly because Dr. Williams was the person I went to for academic advising. But I hope to increase my knowledge on what life was like in early colonial America, as well as what kind of hardships “fallen” women encountered on a daily basis.
Most of the reading I do is that of classic literature, like Steinbeck, Twain, Ayn Rand. Thrillers are also fun to read though. I’ve read a lot of Dan Brown and Dean Koontz. Basically anything that will either make me laugh or become depressed is good in my book.
The type of writing I most often do is just comedic fiction. Most things I write take a comedic turn, including my essay when applying to this school. Personally, I don’t think my writing is very good. I tend to write simply, and will never impress anyone with word usage or anything of that sort.
I think what my blog states, considering coloration and text, is that overall I am reserved, but can be extroverted if some nervous energy comes along and jolts me, as it often does. It also states that I will attempt to learn a great deal from this course, even though I really didn’t know what I was signing up for.
I have read, understand, and agree to the terms of the course syllabus.
