Course Goals Final

The goals that I feel I benefited from the most this semester are understand how persuasive visual and verbal texts are composed for different audiences and different purposes, and take responsibility for your own progress. I learned that persuasive visual and verbal text are composed for different audiences from our multi-modal project and our public writing essay. The public writing essay proved this point by showing me that certain people aren't interested in all topics, and that if you want someone to read something that they aren't interested in, then you need to write it in a way that holds their attention long enough for them to read what you wanted them to read.

Another example of this would be the video that Mr. McArdle posted on his blog from the Daily Show, where John Stewart was calling out Fox News for using a video that put footage from two different places together and pretending that they didn't. However, the reason that Fox did this was so that their story was more appealing to their viewers, which is important.

I've also learned not to procastinate as much as I have in the past. With all the essay that we had to write this semester, and constant revisions that we had to make, I made sure that I didn't wait until the last minute to do everything. This has also helped me in some of my other classes too. In my art classes when a huge project was assigned I made sure that I went in to the studio during weekends to work on it, so that I would get it done in plenty of time before it was due. Also, for psychology I made sure I studied for test more than just the night before, which I think helped a lot because it allowed me to go to bed early the night before the test and be well rested.

Another thing that helps me get work done is listening to music. For some reason when I listen to music it helps me think better and I can get more stuff done. It especially helps me on my art projects because music helps me be more creative. My favorite band to listen to is Alice In Chains because they are my favorite band of all time and when I listen to them while doing my homework I just feel as if I do a lot better. I have posted the music video for Check My Brain, which is from their new album.

Finals...FML

Cuz baby its cold outside

Christmas is just around the corner, and there is no snow on the ground yet. This just makes me soo mad because to me cold weather just isn't worth it...unless there is so much snow on the ground that schools are getting cancelled. I mean even with snow cold weather sucks, but without snow the cold weather is just annoying. So I really hope that by at least the time Christmas gets here there is a little bit of snow on the ground.