There It Was.

Well, that wasn't so bad after all. After about a half of a semester, thirteen classes, and nine blog posts, I'm finally comfortable with this whole blogging thing. It really was not nearly as bad as I thought it would be; it's actually been kind of fun. I feel like I've come to develop a stronger and more to-the-point voice through blog writing that I haven't been able to achieve before, at least not when it comes to school assignments. I'm not even that worried about the formal essay we have to write because I feel like all of these posts have served as the warm-up for that one essay. I guess what I mean, more simply, is that I feel well-practiced in writing. And I also feel less intimidated by it. Lately, the process of writing doesn't seem to be as heavy or pressing as it used to be. Sure, I still pause between sentences to contemplate what I want to say, but I've found that writing, through a blog particularly, has helped me sort through my ideas as I write them. It truly is a form of "writing out loud." (I'm almost positive I got that quote right.)

To reflect on the class and assignments as a whole, I'd say I've been pleasantly surprised with everything we've been reading, writing, and discussing. Because of the articles we read by Sullivan, Carr, Hedges, and Thompson, I feel, in a way, like I'm one step ahead of my peers when it comes to the Internet. It's hard to explain, but before I had never really considered all that the Internet does for us. I mean, immediately it provides us with whatever news, entertainment, and/or information we could ever want, but it also has more long-term, and often hidden, effects. It changes the way we think, read, write, and interact with one another, which I had never slowed down enough to realize before. I guess I'm just excited to have this new outlook. And, even more, to feel like I've got a pretty good grasp of it.