English 2001 Wrap Up

I started this class off by volunteering at St. James place on the weekends. I had an odd mix of feelings when I was volunteering, it rewarding and discouraging at the same time. It put me face to face with what my future is down the road. But it also showed me what it’s like to have lived a life. I have Ms. Dona Jacobs to thank for that. Her company and her stories really encouraged me to go out and do even more volunteering with the elderly. There aren’t a lot of young people that take the time out of their day to visit those that came before us, and because I had such a good time with Ms. Dona, I want to be different from the rest of my generation.

I was truly looking forward to spending a portion of my weekends with Ms. Dona but my visits were cut short due to COVID-19. To be honest, my entire freshman year was cut short due to the virus. I am still upset about having to move back home because my college life was actually fun. At college I actually had true freedom, but now that I’m back home with my mom, it is not the same. In addition, we are in quarantine/lock down in Los Angeles County and I have yet to see my family in person. I’ve been home for a month now and the only person I have seen is my mom. It’s really depressing to have to go from living in college dorm, to suddenly living back with my mom.

I have two more weeks left of my freshman year and I have one more major assignment due. My Lit-Review for English 2001. My research paper is on how there are years worth of research on ALS causes and yet not one universal cause has been found for sporadic ALS. In addition to all of that research, very few papers actually talk about how patients and their families are affected. If I am being honest, the only reason why research is being done is for those patients diagnosed with a disease and yet, there is little to no research on how patents live with the disease. In my paper, I want to talk about the lack of research and how it is important for nurses to be as educated as they can even when they don’t have all the answers. If I stress how little research is done on finding ALS causes and how ALS patients live, then hypothetically nurses will pay more attention to those causes and patients livelihoods and learn from them and talk about them.

Lastly this English 2001 has honestly prepared me for the next level writing I will have to do in Nursing School. I can analyze, review literature, write a personal statement, and professionally convey a message. Thank you Mrs. Dorothy McCaughey.