BLOG #12- REFLECTION

Blog #12- Reflection
As my final exams and final touches are being made to my classes, we figured that this week I would write a reflection piece about how school and writing these blogs have affected how I dealt with this semester. First of all going into this semester and writing my blogs, gave me a chance to write down what I wanted to do, and how I was going to fulfill those requirements. I was unsure how I would do all my assignments and my exams, being that they were all due so close together. Writing it down on paper gave me the chance to think about everything as a whole, and to break it down into smaller categories that I was actually able to work with. Doing this also made it feel like the semester went by that much faster. I really enjoyed it, and felt as though I was able to make an impression on old and new students. I felt good and secure about the work that I completed this semester, and found myself more often than not satisfied with the outcome of my overall grades for my assignments. I found that I had more time on my hands to spend with my family as where before, I knew what I wanted it was just a matter of being able to complete them. I also found myself being able to edit most if not all of my papers before sending them into my professors.
I have also found that writing my weekly blogs forced me to open my eyes to a whole new world of ideas, good habits, bad habits, etc… Weekly trying to find different things to discuss, that I knew would somehow benefit my readers, made me look at different every day occasions that I would not have normally looked at. Finding different possibilities, I found myself paying more attention to the classroom environments, and other things that were happening all around me while I was here at the college. I saw more friendly people that I knew were even here. I also found that in some cases I was in there was the possibility, which I was being taken advantage of. Noticing the possibilities, I was able to extend my friendships with certain members here at the college, and decrease the availability of myself to those whom I thought might have been using my friendship, a little more to their advantage then to anything else.
After carefully planning each week, I was hoping that new and old students would read my blogs, as I did not hear much feedback from the newer students; I was very pleased to hear feedback from some of my fellow classmates, and friends. It was nice to know that someone was reading them from the beginning. One of the most important things that I was able to learn this semester was how to self reflect. I enjoyed it, and it really did open my eyes to a whole new world. I find myself from time to time doing more self reflecting, and finding myself. I am thinking more of things I never thought about before, like what the aftermaths of things are going to be. If there is any more advice I could give people it would be to take some time, set a day apart for just you, think about things that you would never normally think about, and do a little of your own self reflecting.