Essay 1

1. Outline
CLASS IN THE CLOUDS
No. Topic Explanation
1 INTRODUCTION - Introduce the topic of ‘Boredom’ for students.
- Stating the ‘Thesis Statement’: Things that you do in class when you’re bored.
2 1ST THING TO DO Major Support
- Taking Pictures.
Minor Support
- Taking pictures of presentation slide, friend’s note, your friend sleeping or doing other things, the lecturer, taking
a selfie, or a group selfie.
3 2ND THING TO DO Major Support
- Drawing Things.
Minor Support
- Draw your friend’s face, a bottle on your table, the lecturer, or random things that came up to your mind.
4 3RD THING TO DO Major Support
- Daydreaming
5 CONCLUSION Summary of all the paragraphs.

2. First Draf
CLASS IN THE CLOUDS
Being bored in class has become one of the most common problem that all students experienced at least once during their academy study.
Each student have their own ways in order to survive this stage of horror. These are 3 things that I usually do whenever the class
vibe is not that interesting.

The most often thing that I usually do is taking pictures with my phone. There are so many things that I could archive inside my
phone. Most of them is Presentation Slide. Rather than writing as fast as I can until I can’t read my own hand-writing, I chose the smart
solution. I would just take the pictures instead and re-write it on my own pace later. The bad part about it is that I always forget to re-
write it later.Another thing that I usually do is taking a picture of my friend’s note. Sometimes the lecturer material is too small complex
that I can't even understand the material itself. In this kind of situation, friend's note is always the best option. It's simpler and brain-
friendly. Besides, the more reference the better, right?

However, there are moments where I was too fed up with the class, I can't even keep my concentrate for 5 minutes. In this kind of
situation, rather than taking pictures of materials, I would rather taking pictures of my friends instead. Believe me, whenever a class is too
boring, I'm 100% sure I'm not the only one who felt that way. I would check on my other classmates situation, and take some funny
photos of them sleeping, playing with their phones, doing some silly stuffs, etc. I always got a lot of blackmail materials after this. If it
turns out all of my friends were still fighting to listen to the class, I would usually encourage them to take selfies with me to help them to
get distracted from the lecture. You're welcome, my friends.

But sometimes, there are lecturers that didn't like it when their students are playing with their phone. For this kind of situation,
I would use whatever source that I could get to 'run away' from the lecture, which is Drawing. I was reading posts the other day and then I
found this meme that said, "Every boring class become an art class". And let me tell you, it is absolutely true. I don't really get the idea
either, why drawing suddenly become a wonderful option in a boring class, but I still did it anyway. And in terms of drawing, I don't think
that we really need to have drawing skills like Picasso whatsoever. If you guys looked at my drawings, I guarantee you guys will laugh your
a-*cough* off. I draw like a 3-years old! But hey, I still did it anyway. Things that I draw is completely, how should I say it, 'unique'. I
could draw my friend's face, the lecturers explaining the material, a bottle that are standing in front of a table, or just random
imaginations that came inside my head. It actually reminds me when I was still a high school student. Me and my best friend would get
bored in Physics class and we just decided to draw a completely random thing on a piece of paper. But then those random drawings that
we made eventually became a short story of 2 ghosts exploring the under-realm and they ended up racing to see who got the finish line
first. Pretty random? You tell me. But one thing for sure, all of those have one thing in common. They are terrible drawing.

The last thing that I could think of in order to survive the torture, is just simply Daydreaming. I could pretty much go to every
places, every situations, every realm, every timeline, or everything. The only limit is my imagination. It doesn't require any energy or rapid
movements. Just simply sit there, and let my mind do all of the work for me. One thing that I always be aware of, is to NEVER daydream
while staring at the lecturer. Although it might works sometimes because it's as if I was paying attention to the class, it never end up well
most of the time. Some strategy that I usually do is I would holding on to my pen, and look at my notebook. It's the safest position for me.
Just make sure not to close my eyes while I'm daydreaming, or I might end up sleeping.

In sum, there are so many things in order to not get in trouble because of not paying attention to the class. It
could be taking pictures, drawing things, or just get out from the class 'Thoughtfully' . Get it? Nonetheless, there are so
many other things that are possible to do in boring class, this just one of the three possibilities that I could think of.
 Essay 1

3. Writing Check list

No Task checklist
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1 Have you made the essay outline?
2 Does your essay have 5 paragraphs?
3 Does your introduction have the “thesis statement”?
4 Do second, third and fourth paragraph have topic sentence and minor supporting
sentences?
5 Have you written 250-500 words?

4. Final Draft