The Places My Mind Takes Me

    I wish I would have used this blog as a place to really show the class where my mind wanders to, but unfortunately I am lazy sometimes. Having my own public space is fun and exciting, but I could have utilized this space much more this semester.

I love coming to the end of a semester and having a teacher ask for complete honesty, because I love giving it. Honestly, I hate having to communicate with people through blogs and such when I can just as easily write them a note and tell them what I think in class. Honestly, I hate blogging about my ideas because I feel like no one will see them and it is a waste of my time. Honestly, I wish I knew at the beginning of the semester how I feel about blogging now….I can honestly say….I do kind of like it, in certain aspects.

I like having a space I can free-write about my ideas, I just should have used it more. In class I would think to myself, “Wow, that’s a great idea, I could write about it in my blog” but I just never got around to it. I wish I would have blogged a week ago after class when we all connected everything we learned in the class together because I had some great ideas, I just don’t remember them anymore, and probably never will. This is my own fault and I am going to have to read through my notebook later today because this will bother me all day to not remember what I wanted to write about.

Writing a blog doesn’t make me feel different about myself as a writer. Blogging simply makes me feel like I have a place to go to and write if I so choose, but as a writer I still feel  like a college student, not a real writer (even though I graduate in 12 days). I don’t know how I will feel about being a writer then, but for now I still feel like a college student that only my teachers have to read.

As for the effectiveness of this blog and how it could have been made better, I would have liked to have an assignment a week. This assignment would be to simply blog about anything, response to class, something that happened with you and your writing that week, anything, just to get us all blogging. Then choose a person, read their blog, and comment on theirs. This would not only have people blogging more, but it would be on the topics they chose, and then they would have to read each other’s blogs as well, and it would hopefully become a sort of habit rather than an assignment.

I wish I had more ideas or something more productive to say, but this is all I have. I am being completely honest in this post, I am lazy and should not have been, but an extremely glad I had the chance to really have a blog. My mind took me to many places this semester, sadly I just never blogged about them all.