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2017 Resolutions & 2016 Reflections

2017 New Years Resolutions As another year passes by, I can’t help but continue my yearly tradition of making New Years Resolutions and reflecting.  I’ve done this since I was in middle school and would usually spend New Years Eve with my buddies playing video games (most of the time Spyro and Kingdom Hearts) and then writing up a master plan on how to better ourselves for the following year.  We…

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On Blogging

I thought the blogging experience would be easy, but I was surprised by how simultaneously right and wrong I was. I'm an avid Tumblr user outside of this class, so I thought using the Tumblr platform would make this assignment easier. While it definitely made formatting more comfortable, the writing itself was just as elusive as it would've been on any other blogging site. Writing for friends and for casual acquaintances is one thing. Writing for peers about academic theory is a beast all its own. Though the focus was to engage with class ideas, I definitely faced what I’ve heard my peers say in their reflections, which is this feeling that my ideas were not smart enough and not valid enough. The posts which felt the most intelligent and the most worthy were those which encompassed stiff, impersonal academic language, but they didn’t feel like they reflected me. Those posts which reflected me most closely moved away from that aforementioned formulaic way of writing. While I’d like to think I began to find a balance, I know even as blogging came to an end and even now, that balance is precarious at best and more than likely broken. Still, I appreciate the blog space, which to me is significantly more comfortable a platform than speaking in class. A writer at heart, it always feels that my written word is more thoughtful and more composed than anything I might try and say in class. Overall, the academic blog experience has been interesting and thought provoking. I have enjoyed having the opportunity to see and read many of my classmates’ thoughts- especially those whose voices are quieter in our classroom space.