Media and Community: All Grown Up
I offer heartfelt thanks to this community. Last October, I took a screenshot of a Snapchat captioned, “I am a shell of the person I once was.” I laughed out loud when I read it, one of those hollow,… Read More
Category: community audit
Spencer Patten Blog Post Audit
Throughout the semester I have had the opportunity to improve upon my writing. Looking back on all the blog posts I have published, I have found both growth in my writing but also room for improvement. I have… Read More
Connecting Myself to Literature
We began this course with a post about ourselves, and I never stopped relating all the subjects discussed online or in class to my life experiences. Throughout the course, I discovered how I could connect myself to literature,… Read More
A Year In Review
When I heard that the writing assignments in this class were less formal and more like blog posts, I was nervous but eager to challenge myself and find my voice as a writer. The first blog and comments… Read More
Sharing Through Writing
As a Senior Economics major, this class has been bizarre. At times, I get deja vu to moments back in elementary school when we would trace or make small picture books. It is not, however, comparable, in elementary… Read More
Media and Community: A Reflection
After analyzing my blog posts, I noticed that there is definitely a certain style to my writing. Often, my posts would follow a certain structure. In each of my posts, I start with a sort of “prologue” to… Read More
Goodbye, you wonderfully brilliant and goofy group of people.
I was drawn to this class because Community is one of my favourite shows ever. I loved this class, because you all make up one of my favourite communities ever. This semester has been such a blessing, and… Read More
Developing My “Voice” through Media and Community
Media and Community has truly been a step outside my comfort zone and box not only as a biology major, but as a blogger because I tend to air my thoughts through conversation rather than online media. However,… Read More
Shared Experiences vs Optimal Distinctiveness
The diversity of assignments led me to write about a wide array of topics this semester. However, my posts helped in my quest for understanding how communities are formed, a goal that I had at the beginning of… Read More
An Unexpected Creativity
This class has developed my writing more than I ever could have imagined, because of the ways that I was able to explore writing. In previous courses (especially in high school) I always wrote standard argumentative papers that… Read More