“Essay #1-My Writing Portrait” being my first ever college essay was a very nerve racking essay to write. When I sat down at my computer a week before the essay was due I came to the realization that I hadn’t really wrote a true essay since my junior year of high school. I remember saying to myself “that I will never get this done because I cannot even remember the basics of writing”. After that panic started to fade though I remembered what we had read in Writing and Rhetoric class that day. What we read was an article titled “Shitty First Drafts” and what that article emphasized was to just write no matter how shitty it sounds. So I did just that. I took the key points we were supposed to write on and I just started to type whatever I could think of that was in the realm of those key points. The first thing that came to my mind was my writing past. My writing past was pretty dramatic so that part of my essay came to me with easy. If that was the only key point I was allowed to write on for the five page essay I probably could have done it. The section titled “The Role of Writing” also came very easy to me. The section though that I struggled with was the section titled “Projecting into the Future”. This section was hard to write about due to the fact that it hasn’t happened yet. With some thought though, and by asking instructors of mine who have been members of the career fields that I plan to join, I formulated what my future writing endeavors might be.