THLOG #10- End of the Road.

~This final blog post is going to be Boyz II Men themed-- you have been warned.~

So Monday’s class consisted of completing a survey about the course, as well as working on the Portfolio Week Doc’athon. The Doc’athon was pretty cool, I loved being able to get a bunch of different opinions and answers to the question I posed (but I did feel like it got pretty repetitive when I saw that everybody and they mama were asking basically the same questions about thesis statements...but, c’est la vie). The survey was cool in the fact that I was not only able to voice my feelings about the course and Zack’s teaching, but I was also able to reflect everything we learned and did this quarter (possible metacognitive essay material???). Now it is Final Portfolio time, and I’ve actually taken a mental break from working on it in order to write this thlog, which is really funny because before this class I used to moan and groan whenever I had to write something, and now I find it relaxing and almost cathartic << and if this isn’t a testament to how much this class has impacted me, then I don’t know what is.

I mean, yes, I knew that Writing 2 was going to teach me about academic writing, and genres, and rhetoric, and all that good stuff, but I had no idea how much it would change me as a writer, and I’m sure many of my classmates feel the same way. “We were Boyz when we started out, but now we’ve matured into Men.” - (A supremely cheesy metaphor that I came up with, and have been waiting a long time to use). But underneath this tacky metaphor lies the truth of it all: I am so much more confident, dynamic, and eloquent in regards to my writing abilities than I was before. I am so grateful to have taken this class, and to have been able to learn an unprecedented amount from Zack (with a K), the Jedi Master of Writing.

So, although we’ve come to the end of the road, still I can’t let go (but I know I have to). I’m ending this quarter with the reassuring thought that, when it comes to writing, I am no longer a new kid on the block (have I thrown in enough 90s music references?). 
Anyways, goodbye and good luck to all of you, and a big thank you to Zack-- it’s been real. <3