Kevin Maravilla
Freshman Seminar
December 4th, 2014

Open Mic-Night in Saint Joe's First Floor Lounge

I don't exactly remember what day this event took place on, but I had great time listening to other peoples essays and short poems. Everyone had either prepared a short essay or poem to read to everyone sitting in the room listening attentively. Everyone's essay or poem is a different and expresses a different type of emotion. Time doesn't need to be spent on these essays or poems, sometimes there were people who came up with them in 5 to 10 minutes.

It was fun to be listening to people brave enough to stand up in front of a crowd of people who were willing to read aloud their essay or poem. I was happy to be there with friends and I also got to meet new people that live here at NDNU. Everyone had creative ideas, from short essays to two people singing a few songs to the audience.

This is an event that should continue being held multiple times during a semester so that people are willing to speak out loud what they have written. This is a great way to get to know other people here at NDNU and become more social. Also this is a great event to get better at public speaking and to not care about what others think, but just speak freely.