Portfolio and Reflection Letter

Yousef Alqahtani’s Archive of ENGRD101 with Prof. David Morgen. Spring 2022. Having grown up in Saudi Arabia, studying in a school where the final English test was rewriting and memorizing a few sentences-long “essay,” this class had been more challenging than I anticipated. Nonetheless, it is by far what most pushed me out of my …

Yousef’s Assemblies

Given that I am relatively literate when it comes to technology, acquiring digital citizenship and rhetorical composition was not that challenging to me. However, writing as process, visual thinking, and critical thinking were not as easily-achievable as I thought them to be. Luckily, through challenging myself in the dozens of assignments, I would say I …

Literacy Narrative 3 Reflection

The project truly made me not just better in writing, but also in drawing, analyzing, and looking at materials differently. While definitely challenging sometimes, pushing myself more paid off at the end, especially when I see the outcome of my efforts. Creating my comic and going back to write about the literacy narrative made me …

Literacy Narrative 3, Alqahtani’s

As a child, reading and memorizing Quran (the Islamic Holy Book) was the only book that I used to read and memorize on an almost-daily basis. Despite the encouragement and rewards given to me by teachers and my parents, I never considered reading and writing an enjoyable experience. However, comics growing up and Twitter as …

Alqahtani’s Literacy Narrative 2 Reflection

This was by far the most challenging assignment I have ever had. Not mathematics, not physics, not even any other STEM-related assignment has been more challenging to me than this particular assignment Although I tried as early as possible to make it better-looking, I have always failed to do so. However, I compensated this by …

Literacy Narrative 2 – Alqahtani’s

A Long Flight Mixtape

Given that music is not really something I regularly listen to, I found it difficult to make a playlist that connects to me. However, connecting to a specific scenario, a long flight, eased the process for me. I decided to make a playlist that reminds me of home, especially being thousands of miles away from …

Yousef of Arabia

After days of thinking about a scene to recreate, I finally gave up and decided to recreate a scene that of a movie that I despise, Lawrence of Arabia, since it is what makes more sense to recreate. While I did not have everything to master the recreation, I did my best to imitate him, …

Presentation’s Reflection

Given my lack of exposure to such presentations, it was hard for me to fully explain my ideas in the presentation. When it comes to what was different compared to writing an essay, I would say the limitation when it comes to time and facing the audience makes presenting a bit more harder. My process …

Yousef’s Stress Meter

For this chart, I used several metrics to identify my stress level throughout the week. To measure my stress/productivity (I used it this way since it intersects with each other when it comes to myself), I analyzed my time playing video games, watching TV shows, reading, doing assignments, and praying. I chose them since they …