Donte Washington

Professor Jizi
UWRT 1102
10 May 2016
Dear Reader,
Welcome to my website and I hope you have enjoyed it thus far. It has been an interesting
journey from where I started to where I ended. When I was first presented with the topic of
happiness I groaned and thought that this was going to be another redundant class. It wasnt until
I read the book that I started to get interested in the topic. I remember thinking that I never took
the time to think about the things that genially make me happy. During my first personal essay
What Happiness Means to Me I had to delve deep into myself to figure out what actually made
me happy. I remember thinking This is a really hard topic and I really dont know what to
write. It was a really short paper because I simply couldnt find more things to talk about. When
we assembled into our small groups with one person she complimented my style of writing and I
felt proud of my work. I know that I am decent with explaining thing in a way that is meaningful
to a majority of the people. I am more of an arts person so I am geared towards emotions more
than hard facts so my word choices are always articulate. If there is something that I like, I can
write a few pages on it without any hesitation but when its something that I simply do not
d=find interesting, I cannot write longer than for five minutes at a time. This was the case with
my first IQ research essay. My thought was to write it as an actual research analysis as if we
were in a science class but after I found out that that wouldnt be useful for my overall goal. I
couldnt get into the way the research was being used. I felt as if I had done a lot of research and

was just summarizing it on the page without any other colors. Color is something that I love to
stress, literally and figuratively. The background that I chose is really important to how I color
coordinate the rest of my artifacts. I need everything to complement each other nicely. I made
sure to include interactive sections so my guest wont be bored as well. My main thought is If I
came to this website what would I like to see. Im worried that there might be a little too much
pizazz and it could be overbearing. I wish I could include more of my free writes because some
of them were really good but I couldnt share them because of the content. Sometimes I wrote
about how pointless they were and other times I wrote about how they were actually helping me.
It all depended on the mood I was in when I entered the class. I felt as though the class was antiparticipatory. I dont know anything about anyone due to the lack of conversations and everyone
seems like a walking corpse in there. I feel as though that is the opposite type of environment
that Im used to in correspondence to creative writing. I think that plays a significant role in the
formation of the writings we do. Overall, I think my website turned out pretty and also pretty
nice. My main accomplishment was my video. I know I didnt have to go above and beyond but I
felt as though it would be a nice finishing touch. I do not regret all the hours I dedicated to it
because I can enjoy it from day in on day out and I can experience genuine happiness.