'The Paper Prison' Reflection

The Paper Prison was one of the most challenging papers that I have ever written. That paper took so much time and was, by far, a whole lot harder than the papers that I had to write in ENG 111. It seemed that as I wrote the paper, I encountered several different obstacles, each one bigger and more frustrating than the previous one. I didn’t think that I would ever get anywhere with that writing project, but I was able to, surprisingly. Overall, I think that the finished product was a really good paper, with the exceptions of a few grammatical and organizational errors. Now, as I reflect on it, I actually enjoyed reading and analyzing “The Yellow Wallpaper” and eventually writing about what I had discovered. During the actual writing process, I was in total misery though, because I felt like I couldn’t get started and when I finally did start, I felt like I couldn’t get anywhere. I was getting super frustrated with myself and I later discovered that, no only in English but Math also, I was being really hard on myself and not being patient with myself.
After I talked with another professor, I was able to get over this state-of-mind and, now my whole perspective about school has changed. Writing The Paper Prison was a good project for me to complete because it forced me to stay focused, be patient with myself, and also to always follow the steps, in order, to write a paper and not skip ANY of them. Looking back, I can see that if I hadn’t been so quick to jump in and instead, stayed on the right track, I would probably have came out with an ‘A’ paper. But, I definitely learned my lesson!