I feel like this course has helped me become a more polished and professional writer. When I first started English 110, I was extremely insecure and had no confidence in my writing. I believe this point can be partly attributed to the fact that I always had my teachers holding my hand and helping me through the writing process in high school. My senior English teacher always reminded us that college would be much more challenging than her class and then proceeded to tell us stories of professors assigning zeros for small oversights within a paper. This, combined with the general apprehension about university life, left me terrified. I was always a strong writer in high school; I know how to formulate an argument and argue that I expected to read long, boring books on topics that weren't relevant to my life; as it turns out, this hypothesis was completely false. All three essays we had to read in class were quite difficult to understand, but after a second reading the meaning of the essays became clearer. I also felt like their key messages and ideas were engaging. I definitely thought they would be extremely dry and difficult to understand. When I first read “Wish Fulfillment” by Richard Rodriguez, I felt like I could closely relate to this man. Everything he said about education and sacrifice reminded me of my school education. The same idea can be taken up in Michel Foucault's essay “Panopticism”; I found his ideas fascinating. I was extremely intrigued by the way it explored power relations and the ability to examine a panoptic structure in my essay. Within my essay, I specifically focused on my experiences within a nursing home. In my article I write “The nurse's station and the necessary rooms for the staff are in the center of the unit, similar to the central tower… Conversely, this makes the guest rooms similar to cells and the guest interiors, comparable to prisoners” (2 ). In essence, I am exemplifying my understanding of a panoptic structure with the example of the people working within the nursing home. Before writing the analysis, I didn't think twice before going to work, but after writing this article, every time I went to work, Foucault and his ideas about panopticism always remain in my mind. This isn't to say that this is all I focus on when I'm at work, but that it makes me think twice when interacting with colleagues, residents, or family members