As a writer, this winter I think my writing skills were well developed as I came into the gateway course, however my ideas and motivation to see them become real were not. I think interacting in class and talking with other classmates also helped me to think outside of the box and develop my ideas.  As of now, writing poetry is the kind of writing that I enjoy the most, but I think in my capstone I am going to try something that I am not as comfortable writing.In the next year or so, I hope I can take the confidence I gained as a writer this year and use it to push myself to write more things that are outside of my comfort zone.

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   When I first started this class, and was tasked to think of a topic that all of my experiments would be based on, it took me a while to find one that really inspired me. I think the topic I chose which is telling the stories of different people through their eyes was a good choice because it allowed me to have almost endless options and topics. After writing my samples that included a write-up in the Humans of New York, a poem about my experience going to a predominantly white elementary school, and an interview of my aunt talking about her experience being in Manhattan on 9/11, I chose to base my project off the poem that I wrote in experiment #2 and to turn my other experiments into poems. I think that doing this will allow me to not only tell the life-changing stories of others, but it will also allow me to add my own spin on the stories and inject my creativity into them. I think it is unique that I can talk about the experiences of other while showcasing my abstract ideas as well.