Entry #4 The Finale

I would love to say that I have found a new passion in writing in the form of blogs.  That my desire to share stories and interesting facts via the web has been realized.  Sadly, this is not the truth.  I am so glad it is finally over. Blogging just isn't something that I have the desire to continue.  I'm sure it relates to my lack of social media site interest.

I tried very hard to take this experience seriously, because I wanted a good grade and in the beginning it was very hard to do.  I had such a hard time coming up with interesting topics for my self generated entries that didn't sound lame or know-it-all like.  After the first blog assignment I started to have some fun with it.  I have never had a school assignment that required me to use so much creative ability.  I had an excuse to search the web for fun pictures and loud video clips.  I did enjoy the blog project more than an essay.

 If the class had been a normal sixteen week course, the blog project would have been easy to accomplish, but because the class only lasted five weeks, it was a touch overwhelming.  And when I say a touch, I mean that I was ready to cry some nights out of frustration.  A summer class is like that though and a few tears are to be expected.  I can't think of anything else I would have changed about this experience, just the amount of time to take with it.

I think writing blogs instead of an extra essay was a very good way of allowing us to practice our skills on a less intense scale.  An essay sounds so formal and requires so much work, while a blog is much less daunting.  The idea that we were writing for our peers instead of our professor was freeing.  I learned more about rhetoric, the basis of the class, writing a blog than I would have writing an essay.  I learned how to write for my audience and how to write with a different medium.

So, it was hard, very hard, but I enjoyed the project, even though I will probably never try blogging again.