Getting to Know Classmates

As an English major, my favorite type of class has always been the workshop. Aside from the fact that you get to work on your writing more than any other type of class, the workshop allows you to connect with your classmates more. In my other classes, there will be a few various classmates throughout the room that I know by the end of the semester, even if it's just because I asked for their pen one day. It's different in a workshop though. In a workshop, I get to look at and read everyone's art. What we're sharing says something about a person on a much more personal level than just an essay we're peer reviewing. By reading people's stories or poems, I can remember them through their writing style, a layer of depth that we don't usually get to with classmates.