This essay was a challenge because having total freedom
to choose the topic can be a difficult task. I decided to talk about something
that I enjoy like music, then I decided to talk about something that I always
heard people talking about which was that people who play music instruments
were smarter than people who didn’t, this was a good debate and I wanted to
know more about it through research. This is where I first found my problem, I
discovered that there was plenty of research about my topic and that I wasn’t
providing anything new about this, so I had to create an even more specific
topic which I decided would be to focus it on college students. This filtered
many of the sources I had because they didn’t apply to college students, having
this specific topic was a good way to solve that problem, but it also created
other problems. While I was arguing whether music would help students, I had to
provide a solution or something that could help the reader to understand the
importance of my thesis statement. This was difficult to prove because I didn’t
have much information or numbers to provide about college students and their
success by taking music classes, so I decided to have an interview with a music
professor that would give me an insight of how a college class of music would
look like. This professor gave me good information, but I still felt that I
needed to give more detailed information but I didn’t know what else to do. This
was a problem that I couldn’t solve because I didn’t find much information
related to this specific scenario. However, I learned that if I had changed my
thesis statement to something a little bit less complex I could had achieved
what I wanted when I first picked this topic. It was a good experience to have
the freedom to write about a topic that I like because I enjoy it and I put
passion on my writing, although I decided to keep my emotions out of this essay
because I felt that as a research paper it shouldn’t have involved much
emotions.