After a very long
ten hour day at school, I went back to my dorm to see what I could do for
homework. I realized what day it was so I
sat down in my rocking computer chair at my laptop to write my weekly blog for
English class, as I normally do on Wednesday nights but I ran into a problem. This
time I didn’t already know what I was going to write about. I didn’t have a
plan of attack already set in place like I normally would. What was I going to
do? What in the world was I supposed to write about?
The weekly blog can be
written about anything inspired from the material we go over in class or the
reading or podcast that were assigned for that specific week. This seems to be
plenty of material to be able to come up with a topic for a mere four hundred
word blog. At least that’s what you would think but what happens when you miss
class on Monday so you only have the material from Wednesday for class that
didn’t inspire me to write , a thirteen page reading you haven’t read yet or an
hour long podcast that you haven’t listened to yet.
I guess the logical thing
to do was to listen to the podcast since I wasn’t feeling the whole reading
thing. Sure, it’s an hour long but all I had to do was to listen. So as I was
listening to the podcast on how a bank was run I decided with about ten minutes
left that it was without a doubt boring and also did not inspire me to write so
I went to bed.
Thursday morning during my
cooking class all the girls from English class were saying that they were in
the same situation I was. They had no idea what to write their blogs on so they
couldn’t exactly help me either. I was screwed.
After class I decided to
make a second attempt on writing my blog but I was still stuck so I decided to
go on facebook instead. I had some notifications, one being “Sarah Cherim
tagged you in a post” so I read it. “Girls, to answer your question: I emailed
Filip and asked him if we were allowed to free-write on our blogs if we didn't
know what to write about or were uninspired by the reading/podcast and he said:
"Why not write about being uninspired by the material in the reading and
podcast?" Hope that helps! Emily Harring, Taylor Nichols-xavier, Brittany Couturier, Emily Garland.” So that’s basically what I did.
Brittany,
ReplyDeleteI guessed after the first paragraph that you had spoken/contacted Sarah. One thing I would like to say is that the course materials are not optional. Neither is responding to them. What I meant when I wrote Sarah is that if you aren't inspired by the readings or the podcast, then analyze why you are not inspired by them. Good job at least referencing some of the content in the blog.
I like how you "defined the issue" early by explaining how these blogs work; that paragraph provides context for any reader that might stumble by. Make sure you do that thoroughly in your research paper.
Filip