This is my 16th week blogging. I would like to continue to blog in the future, especially since it took me so long to get this whole blog thing down to begin with. When I first started blogging, I was totally stumped. I could not start a blog from any of the topics that Jennifer gave us to save my life. First, I could not get my blog account set up. My URL wasn’t work. Then my whole Gmail account wasn’t recognized and I had to create a new one. By then we were on like blog 7 or 8. I actually didn’t do the first 3 blogs. It wasn’t because I didn’t want to do them. As hard as they were for me, I was going to put my best foot forward and do the work. The problem was that I was taking an Anthropology class as well as this class and it was so hard! I just could not balance both classes, it was too hard for me. So, I dropped the Anthropology class and that is when I felt like I started to doing better in the class.
Back to the three missed blogs. I just could not get started. I read everyone else’s blogs and felt so intimidated by how eloquently written they were. The writing that some of these students were submitting was so out of my league, I felt like If I wrote anything at all, I would come out sounding stupid and not up to par with everyone else. I was so intimidated that I let it effect my grade. I was making blogging so much harder than it had to be. I just could not get the guts up to say:” I don’t care what anyone else thinks, I’m blogging!” Finally, I had to though. It was going to effect my grade if I didn’t get over my complex. So, I started blogging. I just could not get comfortable and set in a writing rhythm that was suitable for me. However, like I said it was either blog or fail and so I began to blog. I was not happy with my work and I’m still not. I felt that I could have written better, put more thought into my blogs and more thought into my responses. I feel like I didn’t give proper credit where credit was due on some of the responses that I commented on. Again, I let everyone else’s work intimidate me. This is so not like me either. I’m a good student, I work hard and have a 3.5 GPA. So, why this class absolutely kicked my butt, I have not idea.
So, would I like to continue to blog? The answer is yes. I didn’t look at the class as a perspective for me to learn from the rest of the students as I was too busy have a inferiority complex. I want to continue to blog, so I can learn from other people, which I believe was the whole purpose?
