I'm sitting here struggling to figure out what I should write here. I thought I would start by writing about my personal difficulties with this class because really, that's all I can think about at this point. I am a total left brain thinker. My academic career has been based solely on math and sciences (social and physical). I look at everything analytically and am compulsively organized. This class is extremely difficult for me because it requires... well, creativity. (duh.) I look at everything from a scientific, logical view and it's hard for me to look at it any other way. The last fictional, creative book I read was for ENG101, which I took my senior year of high school in 2002. Ask me to rip apart a book and match components of the literature with literary terms, piece of cake, but dear God please don't ask me to write about how I feel about it or even worse ask me to write anything creative myself. The entire time I was reading Mr. Dynamite I was trying to psychoanalyze the narrator and come up with a clinical diagnosis to suit what his actions, speech, and emotions. Normal people don't do that! [I don't think.] Well, that's really all I have to say. Hopefully something more "creative" will come to my mind for the next post.