Final Post of the Semester

Oh boy, it’s the final post of the semester. It’s interesting posting this now. I’m looking back at all the posts that I had to make, how I started, and all the ones that I missed. Lord, I did miss quite a few of these posts.

When I started, I had a fantastic format that I liked. One post led to another like a blog, and each one held promise for the reader, explaining what exactly we read, links to each thing if possible, and a (what I thought) thorough breakdown of the conversations of each week.

Suffice to say, that only kept happening for about 2 weeks before I fell off the horse on that. It’s honestly a shame. I was very excited to keep going on that, but I shouldn’t be terribly surprised. I’m not very good at keeping things like that going. But I had a good time while it was going.

I know that this is probably supposed to be a reflection on what we did this week and not a lamentation on my lack of work ethic, so I’ll go through it. This week, I worked my bones off (that’s right, my very bones) to get that Verification Quest done. Remember when we were supposed to learn HTML and CSS all those weeks ago? Well, I learned it late. Very late. And while it took me several hours (5 to 10 to be exact) to learn it, I did in fact learn it.

So, over the course of about 2 to 3 days, I did get it done. I’m a little inordinately proud of that, given how fast I learned HTML and CSS. It wrote about 3000 words, all 3000 of which I was proud of, before I double checked the amount of words that I actually needed, which was approximately 1000 less than what I had written. With a heavy heart, I found out ways to try and get rid of 1000 words, made many contractions, deleted as many adverbs and adjectives as I thought I could get rid of, checked the word count, and thought that only 500 words over was an acceptable amount.

In total, I probably worked on this project about 50 hours over 3 days. The library became both my best friend and my worst enemy, but it got done and that’s what counts.

Today, we showcased all that work in the PWR student showcase, and while I was a little nervous, it was fun getting to talk about everything that I was working on! On top of that (and I know I probably shouldn’t say this), but it really helped solidify what my research was about and why I cared about it. I will say though that at the end of the showcase my poor voice felt a little thrashed. My sympathies go out to the people who were doing two sections of the showcase!

So, what’s next? The final part of this class is the Interactive Nonfiction, and I’m very excited for it, albeit a bit nervous just because all of the final projects for all of my classes are rapidly approaching. Ah well. ‘Tis the life of a college student!