Current Update on Class so far

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 Hello World! This blog post tasked me with a current update on how I think the class is going from my perspective and what I've essentially taken away from it with 4 or 5 weeks of the semester left. I made my goal to make every class we had this semester, and I am still standing firm on that goal. Overall, since the 7th grade, I remember liking writing slightly; for example, I loved working on our assignments. Since then, writing has continually escalated and gotten much more difficult as specific requirements always exist. At college, the same situation exists as many requirements and things make you focus on every word you put on the page. This was especially evident in the Microtheme; I'm typically a person who writes a lot more words than is necessary because it simply takes me more words to get the point across, which proved to be a struggle because when I originally wrote the microtheme, I was a whole page over the one-page limit meaning I had to cut down my words. Doing that made me realize how much single words can impact an essay. As a result, the points I was attempting to deliver could have been more straightforward and more understandable since I could be better at providing points with short explanations, and my grade reflected that. Then, the Documentary project came with almost no page limit, allowing me to be as thorough as I pleased, which played to my strengths, and my grade also reflected that. Overall, I've enjoyed our projects as they've been projects or writing prompts I've never attempted or touched on before. In addition, I will say I've greatly appreciated these blog posts; they allowed me to take a look back at many of my interests and touch on them once more, which I haven't done in quite some time, and re-lit an interest in me for them again, while also finding a heightened interest for a new hobby altogether. I was starting to gain interest in the racing sport F1 after hearing about it on Instagram; why not write about it? I did not have much knowledge up to that point, so doing more research to provide more details made me fall in love with everything the sport offers, and I have now watched the last three races they've had, next up, Las Vegas.


Overall, I've enjoyed what we've done in class so far; I have no complaints. I'm expecting to enjoy this CARD class much more than the CARD speaking class because I'm pretty horrible at making speeches and presentations with many people around, which I will have to do next semester. So, for now, I have to savor and cherish the time I have left where I get to write everything out.



                                            (All my Interests I've gotten to write about)


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