Looking back on my blog, I feel like it overall was a good exercise. Being about the receive feedback on ideas, but no to your face, was a good way to get things out semi-anonymously. It was also nice to be able to read what other people thought of things that I had also read and clear things up about stories or poems (or whatever the blog of the day may have been) before we started class. 

The biggest problem I had with the blog was that it just makes me a little uncomfortable. I feel funny knowing someone is sitting and reading what I thought about something for class, or my essay, and not being able to see a reaction. Just being self-conscious about my work made me feel funny about posting all of my ideas online. I feel like since writing these fairly often, I'm starting to get a little more comfortable with it. I guess I just need to not feel like it's such a personal thing to write about how I feel about things in a blog. I feel like now, however, I am able to be more candid about what I am writing on here (obviously), and writing on her has helped me to just not worry about things and get it over with. I really did enjoy being able to get feedback on things that I was thinking about the assignments for the day, especially when I didn't say the things that I thought in class. It was a good way to be able to get everyone to participate in a "class discussion" without having to take face-to-face. Everyone could be candid and write what they thought, get feedback, and be honest. That's a cool idea. 

Another thing that I would do is type everything up in Word, and then completely forget about it. For some reason I thought I had all of these blogs already posted, and then it turns out I was just an idiot. That's no one's fault but mine... I guess I'm just a little more absent minded than I thought! This made it hard for me to actually get the feedback that I should have on my assignments, and defeated the whole purpose of the blog. If I did this all over again, I would have to leave myself sticky notes everywhere not to forget to post my blog. 

One last problem that I am realizing as I write this is that the blog has made me feel very informal about writing. I reread the prompt for this essay, only to see that it is indeed an essay, with paragraphs and main ideas and a format. Mine doesn't have that. Writing on a blog just makes it feel like I'm sending an email, telling how I feel about things and then having someone on the other end read it, nonchalantly. Maybe I'm being a little too candid, but I feel like at this point, that's what this blog deserves. It has served as a place for each of us to write about our assignments in a casual way. Get to know each other without actually knowing each other and talk without actually talking. It's actually a little strange. 

So, overall, I'm really thankful for this informal blog I have going on, and I think it was a great way to share ideas with everyone, and for everyone to be able to get out just what they thought about a topic without being interrupted, and with the privilege of getting to sit and think about it, and put it in thought-out words (and in my case thought-out stream of consciousness).