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     From this week I can definitely attest to Mississippi College's stimulation of the intellectual development of its students through various programs.  Since I have been here, other than trying to adapt to the new atmosphere, I have been challenged in more areas than one.  From trying to abandon my ever-pressing desire to procrastinate on studying or doing homework, I am constantly I have changed in several areas.  For the past few weeks in English, we have been working on a very huge paper.  I was always been a pretty decent writer in high school but this particular paper was extremely challenging.  We had to elaborate on certain events in our life and explain how it contributed to who we are as a student.  I had much to say and was forced to learn to say it quickly with the page limit.  I tirelessly worked as I exhausted every way to clearly express myself and to talk about life as I knew it.  The hard part to me was tying it all together and making sure that each story had its own special way of being conducive to who I am as a student.  I was very pleased with my finished product and was felt that I had indeed dazzled myself and my audience as well.  Today I had my conference with my teacher and my ideas were confirmed.  However, there were still parts of my essay that needed tweaking .  Although I was slightly disappointed that it was not perfect as I had hoped it would be, I was very excited that my teacher took to the time to show me how I could enhance myself as a writer and her belief in me that I would indeed be great.  I would have to say that from this class, I have learned to step out of my comfort zone and to take risks on my road of self-discovery and my journey to a successful.  After a year in this class and more of working with my professor, I have NO doubt that I will be more than happy with the writer/person/thinker that I will become.