I would not have noticed the number of changes that needed to be made in my essay if not for the meeting with my teacher and the peer reviews. When writing the first essay of my college career, I realized the amount of time and work that went into making a complete and solid essay. While writing my paper there are certain bumps, I encountered that lead me to criticize my own writing and paper. After the completion of my essay, I was very confused about how to properly cite a source and exactly what sources to cite. I used the MLA Handbook to assist my citing endeavors but continued to be confused. My thesis statement was supposed to be an outline for my paper, as I was taught in high school, but the farther I got into the paper, the more I realized how far I was drifting away from the thesis and my beginning ideas. The first body paragraph is where I saw the most trouble between first and third person. I have had very little experience writing essays in the first person and doing so did not feel right, so in the first body paragraph, I found myself constantly trying to use the third person. This ended up hurting my essay because writing in first person was the whole idea of the paper. When I got to the second and third body paragraphs, I started going farther away from the outlined essay, and more on a path of writing what I figured would be better for the essay and work better overall. This led to some issues with the thesis and the connection it had to the rest of the essay and ended up hurting the essay. Throughout the process of writing and editing my essay, I saw the ups and downs of the writing process which ended up doing more harm than good to my paper.