What I've taken from this...

It took me a little while to decide how I would close out this blog. I came up with random ideas of writing about the class, or that our cohort could pick one theme and write about it with four different perspectives, but it was too challenging to come up with one idea, so I finally settled on what blogging did for me.

I was a little apprehensive to the idea because I had no prior experience and I did not know how it would turn out. I had not really followed many blogs on the web except one, Nicholas Kristof’s “On the Ground”, so I was unaware of the rules of blogging, how to format it, how detailed it should be, among other concerns. After blogging for the first time, I started to realize that there are no set rules for a blog. It truly is your own creation and you can make of it what you want. Aside from the weekly topics to blog about, I was in control of the direction my post should go. After the first couple of blogs, I realized the most efficient way to blog is to chose one theme and stick with it. It makes the post more coherent, but I feel it is distracting to try to make too many points about multiple issues rather than looking at one.

By sticking to one theme for a post, it was a way for me to reflect and connect the theme to other issues and random little tidbits. Not only was a reflective blog nice, but it really helped me to practice formulating my ideas and keeping theme compact between 500 and 700 words. Someone once mentioned in class that it was almost as if we had an essay due weekly because of the amount and frequency of our writing. I am almost thankful we had to blog weekly, because on top of all of the other writing assignments I have had this semester for my other classes, writing consistently improves your writing. I noticed a change in my writing and saw that it improved.

Blogging seems to be everywhere these days, and I am pleased I have been able to participate in it. Even this semester I was applying for something and it asked if I had relevant experience blogging. I have not decided if I want to create my own blog or if I did what the overall general theme would be. But I am intrigued by the experience and what it has done for me. The medium itself is advancing our society in so many ways, with knowledgeable people putting up their ideas on life left and right, that it has been a way to stay informed on anything you could think of, including current events. It is something that I can certainly put on my resume and tell people I have had experience blogging, because you never know when it will come in handy.

I must conclude with a thanks to all of you who have participated in the blog process of a Girl’s Eye View, whether posting yourself or responding, and to the people who just read it. I hope it did a little something for you as it did for me.

LG signing out. Summer is around the corner.