Journal 1 supplement

Because i forgot to include the art in my last post i felt i needed to supplement it with this post. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVk1HOlkq_o This is a hyperlink to a video for the song "Levels" by avicii. I came across this song this summer on a music blog and immediately fell in love with it. Although not everybody appreciates this type of music I believe this song is "art" because it is pure creation. It is something i wish i were capable of creating. I challenge anybody to listen to this song and not feel the urge to dance.

Journal Response 1

Hello and welcome to my blog, Thank you for coming.

As i reflected on my past experiences as a writer i began to think about my experience through high school. However the more i thought about this part of my academic career i dove deeper into my past. Thinking back to the days of jr. high and even elementary school i can see how where my current strengths and weaknesses developed. Creativity has always been an area of concern, not only in writing but in many other aspects of my life. I've always considered myself to be more of a math and science kind of person other than english. Thats not to say that i did not enjoy the english courses that i have taken though. Thanks to some of my favorite teachers and an exposure to some great literature english very much grew on me in the 11th and 12th grade. One of the writing styles that i enjoyed in particular trying to emulate was that of Ernest Hemingway. I really took to the irony and certain comedic sense that he wrote with and feel that it was a type of writing i could get used to. Some of the writing styles i tend to struggle with are those with more artistic feeling such as poetry or pose. This is just do to the nature of my lack of creativity. When it comes to the actual conventions of writing i believe i have a very strong foundation in at least the most basic level. My high school emphasized greatly how to structure and format all kinds of academic writing. Everyone in my graduating class was even presented a little booklet from the english department to be use to help us with college writings. Many of my weaknesses in writing lie in organization and time management. This is something that i will certain have to work on here at Penn State. I often found myself up all night working until the start of school whenever a large assignment was due. Procrastination will most likely be the end of me. I am so easily taken off of track when i know that there is work to be done. However i almost always was pleased with the grades i received and although i was left tired for the next day i experienced the greatest feeling of relief. I believe that this course will help me to write in a way that is different from the simple analytical style that followed reading a novel that i have been so accustomed to in high school. I think that i will possibly grow in the artistic sense that i have lacked so much up until this point. I look forward to learning a lot from this class and growing as a writer in next semester.