My favorite post this quarter was the The Linden L Station. It best exemplified what I tried to do with my blog; take ideas from class, and do something original with them, and to explore their significance beyond just what we do in class. I think that this post worked the best out of any from 4th quarter, because of the research I found, and the way that information seemed to parallel the story of the big ditch from class. I think I successfully used these parallels to come up with ideas about the ability affluent communities have to prevent outsiders from entering, a topic that was new, but also related to issues of class we had been discussing.
With this post especially, I took a personal experience, and connected it to a topic we discussed in class, which was pretty satisfying. It was exciting to find a historical newspaper telling a similar story that my dad had told me when I was younger, and it was surprising to find a use for proquest so soon after finishing the Junior Theme. This post also addressed one of the issues I mentioned in my first Meta Post, that my blogs weren't personal. I think I made this post personal, but in a way that still connected to the themes of the class.
It was interesting to realize that I don't even think this is my best written post this quarter. Looking over it now, I think I could re-write the post, and make it flow and sound much better, and I think many of my other posts had cleaner writing. It's weird, but I'm not sure that having perfect writing on every post matters. I think it's important to write about original ideas, and that as long as you have at least a certain standard, it's okay for the writing to be imperfect.
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