Upkeep

I still can’t decide if I would recommend this blog system for the course. I have kept a blog in the past, and I think it is an extremely innovative idea. Blogging is such a modern form of voicing your opinions to an audience, so why not include it in a mass communication class?

At the same time, I always have a voice in my head that is telling me that I must blog. It’s like a never-ending ache. I still think this method is better than having to hand in a big portfolio at the end, but I still wish we had more direction. Due dates for the projects and such. I guess I’m still used to being guided, and this class has put me to an extreme test. I have always been a procrastinator, so I find myself doing these blogs weeks later quite frequently. When Mark said this class would be more than my other classes combined, he wasn’t kidding.

I definitely think these blogs show who we truly are. There are so many things we could talk about in this course: the lectures, group projects, etc. All of them will be so different. Something that I find interesting in a lecture may be completely irrelevant for somebody else. I find myself wondering what sort of impression I make for the other people who read my blog. I also find myself wondering if I’m understanding what Mark is trying to tell us in every class. Even if I am not able to complete every project, I want to make my process in my other projects apparent and really show what I learned from each one. I feel like this class has grown with me as I’ve went through my first semester of university, right down to how I approached my last paper. I appreciate how far hard work will take you, and how working with others instead of competing with them can be extremely rewarding.