My experience with blogging has been an extremely positive and reassuring one.
First off, I learned a lot in this course about my peers, current events, and different perspectives. It’s given me an opportunity to expand on my own passion and show myself that I am capable of achieving a lot, given the right motivation. But regardless of my achievements, what I enjoyed most was the social aspect of the blogging experience. As an inquisitive person it’s really shown me a refreshing passionate side to people and has given me a chance to really analyze what they feel is important to them. It has also dispelled some myths and opened doors to subjects that I normally wouldn’t care to research such as politics, relationships, and different cultures.
Before I took this course, my accepted view was that I was bad at English because I lacked the skills, ability, and natural talent that would allow me to excel. By my second blog post, this notion had completely dissipated. Blogging about a passion or interest of my own allowed me to actually externalize thoughts that I had and not be worried so much about the composition rather than the material. In doing this I saw that I actually had a firm grasp of the English language and my only problem is that of creativity. It was a liberating experience to be sure and one that I will definitely suggest to anyone that needs to take this course.
A special thanks to the professor for making this course an enjoyable one.
2 comments:
I remember the first day of class when you said that you did not express thought well on paper. From your writing and knowledge of your topic, I don't think I would have ever know that! You put together some very articulate post that were interesting and interactive.
Bravo! I think you hit the nail on the head here. You *are* an excellent writer--sometimes we hate English (and I do too, sometimes) when I have to write about something that absolutely bores me to pieces. Writing about what we're passionate about takes out all the other barriers and allows our true talents to come through.
This has been a great blog...I don't know if you're going to keep it running, but if you do, I'll be a fly on the wall with occasional comments. Excellent work this semester!
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