In this course, I had one main area of struggle, and that was finding the motivation to truly try and get off of academic probation, which meant putting more than just minimal effort into assignments and turning them in on time. For about the first month of the semester, I was "what ever happens, happens" about the situation. What changed for me was that after that first month, I got a girlfriend who actually cared about my well-being and future. She's the one who really pushed me to change my mindset and try to not flunk out. And while we are no longer together, she's still the person who's pushing me to finish the semester right, and hopefully I can keep my promise to her.
In other real-world applications specific to me, I'm not too sure how experience from this class would help me out. I don't even know what I want to do, and won't be back in school until I'm sure about it, so that option is out the window. The only thing I can really think of would be how I wanted to be a comic book creator/artist when I was in 6th grade. To apply it to that, I'd have to make sure that I thoroughly do my research and get everything right, especially since it'd have strong religious and mythological tie-ins (like Christianity, Zoroastrianism, Greek mythos, etc.). If I were to get anything wrong with that, then it wouldn't be an authentic story or experience in my eyes. I'd also most likely have to meet strict deadlines, especially if I work for a big time comic company like Darkhorse, DC, or Marvel.
Valuable lessons that I learned in the course were the importance of having someone else review your work and thoroughly researching a topic. Having somebody else review your work while you in turn review theirs, offers a fresh perspective on your work. They can point out your shortcomings and give ideas as to how to make it better. When it comes to research, getting things right is important. False information only spreads ignorance and idiocy. An example of that is that our current president apparently doesn't even know why the Civil War started in the first place. Thank you, Twitter.
-Your Neighborhood Procrastinator,
Boris Allen
