The Reflective Letter
This assignment requires me to write a letter that reflects my overall composing process and products for this course, it serves to fulfill the Reflective Letter's requirements.
Reflective Letter Draft #1
Dearest Hunter,
Congratulations on making it this far! Although I am rather disappointed in your work ethic, you seem to be doing a passable job in this composition class. Tell me, how much time did you spend in the last week working on these papers? I don't think it could have been more than a few hours, considering that it is now Saturday and you haven't even managed to start this paper. Wasn't it all due Thursday? While I don't think you could've finished up the website in between classes and work, I will let you slide there. You stopped after finishing your third draft, and took the rest of Friday off to waste your time in yet another online social get-together. Why were you feeling so happy then, when you accomplished so little? Was it because you forgot about me? Or were you simply trying to forget about me? It matters not because you see me now, and perhaps you can actually get something productive done other than your job at Panera. By the way, wasn't it a fortunate coincidence that the hours you were going to cover were trainee hours, so you didn't even need to show up that day? So you can spend more time working on this? I know you wonder whether this is just simply a coincidence or something more, but to put it simply, does it even matter? Oh, by the way, why do you write so much about yourself? Why can't you even make the attempt to try and focus on someone else for a change? Are you really that vain and self-centered that you can't even write a letter to anyone other than yourself, or is it that you're afraid of letting other people try to see the real you? It would explain why you don't have a picture of yourself on the blog, you aren't putting it off. I know that for sure, because you never take pictures of yourself. In fact there are plenty of parts of you that you don't even bother telling people, things that could be excellent material, instead you lock it up into yourself, out of fear that it may become relevant someday and you would have messed up everything by letting it out. Did you just try to delete that last sentence? I won't let you go that easily, perhaps that is why you don't like papers, you're afraid of expressing yourself. The question is, why?
Keep up the good work,
Hunter
Congratulations on making it this far! Although I am rather disappointed in your work ethic, you seem to be doing a passable job in this composition class. Tell me, how much time did you spend in the last week working on these papers? I don't think it could have been more than a few hours, considering that it is now Saturday and you haven't even managed to start this paper. Wasn't it all due Thursday? While I don't think you could've finished up the website in between classes and work, I will let you slide there. You stopped after finishing your third draft, and took the rest of Friday off to waste your time in yet another online social get-together. Why were you feeling so happy then, when you accomplished so little? Was it because you forgot about me? Or were you simply trying to forget about me? It matters not because you see me now, and perhaps you can actually get something productive done other than your job at Panera. By the way, wasn't it a fortunate coincidence that the hours you were going to cover were trainee hours, so you didn't even need to show up that day? So you can spend more time working on this? I know you wonder whether this is just simply a coincidence or something more, but to put it simply, does it even matter? Oh, by the way, why do you write so much about yourself? Why can't you even make the attempt to try and focus on someone else for a change? Are you really that vain and self-centered that you can't even write a letter to anyone other than yourself, or is it that you're afraid of letting other people try to see the real you? It would explain why you don't have a picture of yourself on the blog, you aren't putting it off. I know that for sure, because you never take pictures of yourself. In fact there are plenty of parts of you that you don't even bother telling people, things that could be excellent material, instead you lock it up into yourself, out of fear that it may become relevant someday and you would have messed up everything by letting it out. Did you just try to delete that last sentence? I won't let you go that easily, perhaps that is why you don't like papers, you're afraid of expressing yourself. The question is, why?
Keep up the good work,
Hunter
Reflective Letter Draft #2
In this revision, I have rewritten the paper from scratch, and considering it is a reflection at the end of the year, it shouldn't be seen as a reworking of the llst draft but a sequel or an entirely different work.
Dearest Hunter,
Wow, The year is almost over, the final portfolio is due tomorrow at midnight, you've been scheduled to work both tonight and tomorrow, and you only have the time to work at noon today until you leave for work, and before class tomorrow. It's going to be a fun few days! Don't worry, you'll make it through. It's actually kind of funny, you spend so little time working on your school work, but you always seem to pull it all together and walk away scot-free. I wonder what grade you're going to try to argue to get when you turn in this as a final portfolio? Are you going to try and represent your lackluster work ethic and say a D+? Or are you going to argue an A- because of the passion you put into the work you did manage to do? It doesn't matter to me, as long as you pass, and the credits count. I really don't like how inconsistent your work ethic is, considering that you're a one man army at Panera, but you're less productive than a sloth when it comes to anything at home. I know, I know. It's "separation issues between home and work", but is that your real reason? You can't hide that kind of stuff from me. I'm going to go out on a limb and say a sense of futility on your part plays into it quite a bit, the belief that something will happen and nothing will matter anymore, don't worry, I'll just leave it at that so you can sleep better at night. Here comes the moment, where you don't know what to say, and you sit here and look up videos on youtube, pay attention please. You no longer have that luxury of wasting more time.Overall, do you think that these classes have improved your work ethic? I'm led to believe not, considering you are still wasting your time until the last minute. Lets hope the job you find gives you the luxury of little work outside of work. I wonder what picture you're going to use for your about page, something serious or something a bit more lighthearted and fun? It's definitely going to be fun considering how much you hate pictures of yourself.
Congratulations on a good year,
Hunter
PS: Why did you make me sound so mean in draft #1? I just want to see you succeed, it's just kind of hard to do anything when you're always stuck helplessly looking out through those windows.