Blake's Mythology Blog

I did not start off great as far as keeping a regular schedule going for this class.  The first couple of weeks, my projects were almost always turned in on Monday morning, and I actually did not do the project for the first week, keeping me back by a whole week.  Eventually, however, I started to get a more regular schedule, using the time that I had between classes on Monday and Tuesday to finish all of the other assignments.  Then I would do the project and feedback either on Thursday or Friday.  I feel much better about that kind of system that I have now than what I was doing before. Looking forward, I hope to keep up this kind of schedule, wherein all of the other assignments are done by Wednesday and my project and feedback are done by Friday.  This lets me keep my free weekends and enjoy going out and football as well. This image  really spoke to me and helped ignite a small spark of motivation deep within me.

This is one of the first classes I have had where I consistently give and receive feedback on a weekly basis.  It is kind of a new experience for me, but one that I have slowly come to appreciate.  The feedback I have received is normally kind of generic, in that it praises me for the things I have written and makes one comment or so that is relevant to whatever I have actually posted.  It is nice, but I don’t know if it makes a difference in my actual writing. Unfortunately, I think I fall into the exact same trap as the people who comment on my own work.  I normally do the exact same thing, in that I write something nice about what they have posted and give some small commentary, which is never a critique, on the story they have written.  However, I still find these to be very useful experiences for me, because I get to see what other people are writing and get inspired for my own writing.  So even though the feedback itself may not be the best, the ...

These past several weeks of readings have been highly enjoyable for me.  Since I am in my final semester of my International Relations, three of my five classes are in my major and a lot of my other readings can be somewhat repetitive and occasionally uninteresting.  It has been so much fun to be able to read something non-academic, with creativity and occasionally humor.  I love reading, but sometimes hour after hour of political theory can really start to wear on you.  This class and the readings here are something that I look forward to doing because it is such a nice, refreshing break. My favorite unit so far has actually been last week’s unit on Africa.  I read an anthology about Anansi, the trickster spider god, and I actually found myself laughing out loud at some of the things that happened in the stories.  Although I didn’t really know what I wanted to do for the story post, and wasn’t 100% satisfied even when I had finished, it is so nice to ...