Mason's Blog

A week and a half into my family's cross-country road trip we found ourselves surrounded by empty fields of grass in the center of South Dakota.  All of us sat quietly in our 32-foot RV barreling down the highway. My dad driving forward staring at the seemingly endless road, mom fiddling with her phone, and me in the back gazing into the flat grass-covered distance. My family had gone on road trips every two years or so and South Dakota was a through point in our journey to St. Louis. We had just left Badlands National Park and entered the great expanse of emptiness of the Midwest. Breaking the silence, mom looked up and announced the reason she had been tapping on her phone for the last eternity. There was a shortcut that would cut down the drive by an hour. We all excitedly accepted this proposal. Maybe it would be a change in scenery. Maybe it would lead to a new adventure. Maybe it would turn out to be a time-consuming and somewhat hilarious misadventure. As we turned onto the ...

      Hello, I'm Mason Wills. I am in my first year of college and I am still very much exploring possibilities for what my future will hold. I am majoring in English at LBCC and want to expand my scope of what writing is during my time here. I am taking feature writing for that purpose, expanding my scope in writing. I want to take a wide range of writing classes while at LBCC so I can create more secure goals based around the kind of writing that I enjoy whether it's journalistic writing or another kind of writing all together. Whether or not this class leads to the more secure goals that I seek it still seems like a fun and very useful class on the path there.     My main three goals that I would like to accomplish during my time in this class include the following: Finding out if I enjoy this form of writing, coming out of my shell a bit more, and improving my scope and abilities in writing. I want to find out if I enjoy this kind of writing because I a...