My take on peer review

So out of the four questions the professor asked i chose “How do you feel about peer reviews? What have your experiences with them been like?”

So peer reviews make me nervous. They make me embarrassed and make me feel like i want to rip up my paper and not show them or just hide under a table somewhere until its all over with. Yes a little extreme but its true. When it comes to peer reveiw i am a chicken. Thoughts are going through my mind like crazy. “What are they going to think about it? Are they going to laugh at me later after they have told their friends how horrible it was? Are they going to think i am “not the brightest” because i can’t write a stupid paper?” Yes i am paranoid, i always have been. I’m not the type to care about what people think or say about me but when it comes down to something like this then yeah, i freak out. So far i haven’t had any bad experiences. Except, back in high school, we had to peer review and help them change what needed to be changed. I had to switch with someone i didn’t get along with and that was a bad idea. She told me to do something and change it, you know, the basics. Well silly me fell for it, thinking she was trying to help since it was a school thing. Nope, i was wrong, she told me to do something that wasn’t even right and i got a D on the paper. Wasn’t a very happy camper i can tell you that much.