Being that this is my last blog, I've decided to reflect on this whole blogging experience. Before this class, I had never written a blog and am not sure if I had ever read one. I am not going to lie, I was a little skeptical on the idea. I thought blogs were just places for people to vent on when they had a bad day or a place to share really good news; I guess I never really associated blogs with intellectual thinking. But once I started writing my blog responses, I started to see some positive things coming out of it. Normally when I read a book, I can stay focused on it and am not easily distracted; I also seem to have a knack for understanding the text while continuing to read at the fast pace that I do. However, there were times while reading the assignments for this class, I seemed to struggle with that task. I would catch myself drifting off and just simply reading the words on the page, making no attempt to understand the meaning of them. I then realized that I needed to pay attention to what I was reading or I wouldn't be able to write my blog. Knowing that I had to write a blog, helped me focus my thoughts and pick out key points that I could relate to and write about. Especially being that these books aren't leisure reading books, it was nice to have some type of guideline for my thoughts.
As the semester went on, I found blogging easier and easier to do. I noticed that while I was reading, I would pick out topics that struck me as something that I could blog about. I also starting bringing in aspects of my life into my blogs to help make a better connection to the reading. I brought in my own experiences with video games, which were quite plentiful, and I even made a connection back to the lead singer of my favorite band. I never thought that that would ever happen, but it was actually pretty cool. Overall, I think that this experience with blogging has been a positive one. It wasn't as difficult or annoying as I thought it was going to be and I believe that in the long run it made me a better writer.
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