Throughout my whole experience in UWRT 1102, I really had no idea what I was getting

myself in like most people do on the first couple of classes in the beginning of the semester.
Right off the back, I already knew that this class will be my least favorite of all because I'm not
the type of person who is willing and eager to come to a writing class. And also, I'm an
Engineering major who prefers doing math problems any day than writing papers any time of the
week. I see this as punishment from teachers and notable professors as way to really annoy the
hell out of most students. Sometime nights I thought to myself why the hell am I writing this
paper? How would this assignment help me for my major or my desired career field? Don't get
me wrong. I understand some creative processes can really bring out differ areas of creativity and
imagination in some people that most people don't usually use on a daily basis. And I guess that's
why most universities offer these types of courses for students because they don't want to rush
through college quickly that they can't fully think of innovative ways about their selves.
When I first enter class for the first day, I kind of had an idea of how the class should go
based off the face that I recently took a similar English/writing course a couple semesters ago. It
was kind of hard to understand what was going on at first because the class already met couple
times beforehand even before I added the class on the last day of Add/Drop. To my knowledge,
the entire class already prepared the 1st creative writing assignments and I truly thought to
myself that I was totally screwed off the back because they already created one graded assign the
already. Like a new kid to any class, I sat back and listened to different creative stories that my
classmates wrote for the first time ever for this class. And the stories were actually pretty well
written to detail. Very detailed enough that I can actually imagine these writings being in
different types of novels. Every story has a different reaction to me, some with amusement,
others that made actually shed a tear in sadness, and others being so grotesque that I wish I

haven't listened to theirs. As the first day of class was coming to an end, we were going on
material and requirements of the whole year with different writing assignments like SLIPS,
Processes, Forums, and other In-class assignments. Each of these assignments were their own
individual world for me because each type required different special directions and attention to in
order to fully understand and complete the assignment.
In UWRT 1102, even if class was cancelled, there were different topics of discussion
that the entire class would had to reflect and respond to as a visual that have understand and
complete the in class assignment on their own time. The most notable in class assignment that I
remember doing was the library scavenger hunt. Part of this assignment was to use some of the
library resources to search, look, and find different relatable books/ articles that great reflect our
end of the year semester project that we chose. Some topics were very broad from language to
feminism. I chose the benefits and effects of being a minority in today's culture studying
construction management/ engineering positions. Using some of the library databases, I found a
couple of books that fit my topic well. I especially like book I found by Gunyal Mundal and his
theory of social engineering and race back in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Mundal goes more
into detail about how the Caucasian race uses social engineering as a barrier for African
Americans and they give this false perception of modern living. He called it "Social
Engineering". I research more of this topic and it can be used to manipulate regular protocol to
give up classified information. It's a technique that use particular influence persuasions by large
scale private media groups or by governments as well. I thought I could use this idea of social
engineering in modern society for my inquiry project with some of techniques used by modern
media now that deeply impact minorities.

The most confusing and difficult assignment to do outside of class at first were the SLIPS
because each time you write a SLIP, you were writing about different topics or research that was
going to be related and use for your end of the year inquiry project. As well as talking about
different topics that are going to be valid points in your project, part of the SLIPS were also
research as well and discussing what you found and how is it relative to what your discussion
topic you chose to do. With engineering, there are a lot of information I could use to help build
valid arguing points and comments I could have use since everyday technology is a part of
human living. I also wanted to relate my SLIPS to my own personal experience of how and why
I chose to do engineering at UNC Charlotte and how it affects me. Each and every other week, I
chose new advances in technology that had become popular by media relations and celebrity
figures and I took that information and form concise topics that I thought were reasons to discuss
based off my major. This was very difficult for me because I don't like writing papers or deal
with papers in general. The more and more I understood how to write a SLIP, the more I wrote
about because it became more easy for me to understand and discuss about different aspects of
engineering I like and try to gather a single idea that I can branch off for my inquiry project.
Even after the SLIPS changed mid-semester, I really enjoyed taking the time out of my schedule
and take a walk for about 20 minutes and reflect on my topic. I reflected on why I am here and
what I'm trying to do with my specific major. At times, I doubted myself in how I got here and
do I really want to pursue this type of major. Overall, I can truly say writing these
SLIPS have brought me sometime to truly reflect about my major and it help me understand
different situations around the world that not only affect me in this specific major but also many
more across the world.

Doing the PROCESS parts of the SLIPS and the final project together were pretty
interesting because each and every Process was very different from another. It could be the same
one day and change the next. Writing the Processes took me awhile to understand because I was
supposed to reflect and talk about what I did to come up with this specific idea or why did I
research this topic? Half the time I didn't remember what I did because I forgot what I wrote and
when it was time for it due, I tried hard to remember what I said in the previous SLIP and go
from there. Overall, it taught me well to critically think about current situations that I'm faced
with and how to be innovative when speaking and writing.