Refelections on Blogging
After first receiving the assignment of having to blog throughout the semester for our Essay Writing class I was a little less than excited. I have never blogged before, much less really known what blogging was all about. The only blogs I was familiar with were the ones people choose to post on their MySpace and the celebrity gossip blogs such as Perez Hilton. I did not know that there was a whole other blogging world out there.
I guess I could consider myself a little naive to the constant progressing technological advances that are taking place on a daily basis. I am still used to the basics and it is hard for me to get used to everything constantly changing within the internet world. The internet is a big part of our culture and of my generation. These days, everything can be found on the internet. Whether it’s a picture of something specific to a whole background of a person you are trying to learn more about. Everything in that is printed out in print now just seems so useless and unimportant because it is so easy and convenient to find things on the internet. And it is a fact that everyone loves to do things the easy way, which is perfectly understandable.
To me, blogging can serve many purposes. Blogging can serve as an online diary for the world to see, a way to practice your writing, or a way just to express your current thoughts knowing that anyone can come across your writing over the World Wide Web. I am still hesitant to put my full feelings out on the internet for all to see, but after blogging throughout the semester I have become more familiar with the idea.
I will admit, I enjoyed the blogging assignment much more in comparison to prior assignments for classes where I have been assigned to write an essay on a specific topic, it gives your mind the opportunity to wander and your imagination to take charge. I did not feel as if the blogging assignment was tedious or a chore, except at times when I would put off blogging until the last minute. And honestly, I do regret putting it off until the last minute because I feel that if I would have started earlier I could have written to my full potential and made my blogs more meaningful and interesting. But overall, I am glad that I had to the opportunity to create my own blog and post them on the internet. I now feel as if I am a little more up to date with technology and I hope that I will become more tech savvy. I do not know if I will continue to further my blogging once this class is over, but it is good to know that I now have the opportunity to continue it and know that if I do find some extra spare time and have a lot on my mind I could definitely see myself writing it down into a blog for all of the world to read!
Work for what you want…
As I further my college career I am becoming more confused as to what I want to do when I graduate. I find myself constantly changing my mind on selecting a major, finding the write path to follow to pursue a job, and which job field will be most successful. I have always been so intrigued by the fashion industry and sometimes I feel as if UNC Wilmington was not the right choice for me because there are no majors focusing on fashion or even merchandising and marketing.
Every semester the question of transferring crosses my mind. There are so many schools I could attend to further my knowledge into the fashion world. There are schools here in North Carolina (Meredith) that I have considered and schools all the way out to California (Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising). I know that eventually I am going to have to further my education in the fashion world or I will always regret it as I grow older.
Change is just something that is so hard to overcome. Moving to a new town, making new friends, and learning and being familiar with your surroundings takes a lot and is not something people like to do over and over again, but sometimes change is necessary.
I feel as that everyone should pursue their dreams and accomplish their goals, no matter how hard they might be. I think that if you don’t pursue your dreams you will live a life of regret and regret is something that no one should have to deal with in their life.
In the future I hope to pursue my dreams of working in the fashion industry and becoming a very successful woman.
Procrastination…
Procrastinate
Pro-cras-ti-nate
- to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- to put off until another day or time; defer; delay.
Procrastination. Procrastination is probably my biggest flaws. It is not that I am lazy and enjoy putting the majority of my tasks and obligations off until the last minute, but it is in more of the sense that I develop a certain degree of anxiety and the way I avoid this anxiety is to put these obligations off for as long as possible. I guess, in a sense I enjoy working under pressure. The majority of assignments that I am assigned usually are not started until a day or two before they are due. It is also very frustrating because once I begin the task that has been assigned I can continue to finish the assignment until it is complete without a problem. It is just starting it that gets me. I then become frustrated because I know that if I would have started it earlier it could have been even better than the material I am turning in at the last minute. You think that I would have learned from this now and begin everything sooner versus putting it off until the last minute, but I still just cannot seem to get it.
It is not that I don’t think that they are important, because as I am getting older school is very important to me; it is just that I am and never have been the best student. School stresses me out almost more than anything else in my life. This may seem hard to believe but it is true. When it comes to my school work I will try to find anything else to do to distract me from starting my school work, whether it is cleaning my room and the whole apartment (including scrubbing everything from top to bottom), running errands around town, to even helping my friends with their school work- just as long as it isn’t mine.
I know I probably sound crazy for constantly putting off my school work, but I just can’t seem to help it!! I hope one day I will finally stop this bad habit, but until then I will still be up until the early hours of the morning trying to finish and perfect assignments until the last minutes before they are due.
Back when…
Growing up little girls read of fairy tales in which all of the princesses are swooped off their feet and rescued by their princes and knights in shining amour. Like most young girls, I loved to hear the stories of these princesses hoping that one day my prince would come sweep me off my feet.
When you are young no one ever warns you of all the tough challenges one might most likely face in their lifetime. You grow up believing there is a Santa Clause, Tooth Fairy, and Easter Bunny. You hear of love and fairytales, but never of heart break. You never hear about the sudden loss of a loved one- being a friend or family member.
I am not trying to say that there are only negative things facing you as you become an adult, I am just pointing out the fact that there are a lot more obstacles one must face than ever imagined when you are a child. I know that this is a part of growing up, there are just many days that I wish I could be 7 or 8 again.
Everything seemed so much easier when I was younger; there was not a care in the world. And, I would give anything to go back to the day where not being able to find the missing pieces to my Pretty Pretty Princess game would be my biggest concern of the day. I could never even begin to imagine there were worse things going on in the world, such as people dying, people struggling with the economy as badly as we are today, all of the obligations I must meet with school and expectations that are held for me by the people close to me.
When I was younger, the littlest things were so intriguing and could keep me amazed for hours. Just think back on the days when you could be so amused in the game of hide and seek or duck duck goose. Instead of having summer school college courses immediately followed by 8 hour days of work, these used to be replaced with all day excursions at the local pool playing games of shark and minnows with your friends.
On the days when everything feels like it is quickly crashing down and my world is starting to fall apart I just start to think about how the “good ‘ole days” used to be and what I would do to have one more day of swim lessons with my friends at the pool.
Does anyone else miss the old days?
