Technical Description Self-Reflection Essay
Mahir Shahriar
Writing For Engineering 21007
Prof. Sara Jacobson

Coming into this assignment, I thought that it was going to be a breeze. I knew that we had to break some technological item down and describe each part. I had somewhat recently built my PC. I knew each of the parts, what they did, how they worked individually, how they worked together. This assignment should have been a breeze, but there were some slight hiccups.
For starters, I did not end up doing the Technical Description on a PC. Rather I did it on a newly acquired interest: mechanical keyboards. I had initially started the Technical Description with my PC. I even used it when I submitted my first draft. However, as I continued to work on it, I realized there were just way too many components in my PC. Even if I had excluded all the optional components, there were still going to be at least 15 or 16 components that I needed to break down. That was a lot and would have probably taken me ages to do. In order to save time, however, I decided to switch to keyboards, as they did not have nearly that many components. My issue came in the timing of when I switched my topic. When I switched my topic, more than half the time between the submission of the first draft and the due date of the final draft had elapsed, meaning I had given myself barely enough time to make a new Technical Description from scratch. I did not even have a first draft done for a keyboard. However, I did learn that there will be setbacks like this in my academic career that I just needed to find the best to of going about it, and that I should be prepared to take the necessary measures not just in my academic time, but also my professional career as these setbacks can occur.
This assignment wasn’t all bad, however. I was able to gain insight into the history of keyboards and how they came to be. Also, in the search for images to put for the different keycap set designs, I ended up finding a keycap set that I really liked, a design that stood out to me, that I actually ended up ordering for my personal keyboard at home, so at least I was able to gain something that I could treasure for years to come and use almost every day.

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