Here we are again at the end of another semester and at the beginning of another meta-post. Since last semester, I think my blog posts have improved, but one major improvement that I will elaborate on is the content of my posts. Over the course of first semester, my blog posts were written on topics that I had to search for. This semester, I found that my blog posts had more to do with happenings in my life or they pertained to something I was genuinely interested in. The majority of my blog posts also pertained to topics we had discussed in class, which is different from the usually random topics I blogged about last semester. This goes along with my feeling that blogging is no longer something I sit down to do as an assignment on Sunday night. I am much more likely to write a blog post when I feel the urge to type out my thoughts on a certain matter.
One of my favorite blog posts from fourth quarter is '
Same Crime, Different Punishments'. I was excited when I watched Colbert's interview because
The New Jim Crow and Michelle Alexander had been the basis for many in-class discussions on race and racism. I was also able to connect the piece of media I found on Colbertnation.com to the self audit we did in class. I think this was the first time I connected an outside media source to a physical handout from class.
This, in my opinion, shows how I've improved in my ability to find connections between the world outside of school and our class. Now, I am able to relate most of what I view on TV or read in a newspaper or magazine to something we discussed in class, which helps me understand the outside media much better.
