The past few months have been a very interesting ride. I would say what stands out to me is the amount of research I’ve had to pull for this class, specifically for project 2. I found it rather challenging having to essentially make a puzzle out of someone’s life while missing many, many pieces. I think I realized that I tend to write the way I speak, in the sense that I don’t really enjoy sounding robotic when I write and I try to apply as much of my “voice” into the words I write as possible. I would say my writing has stayed fairly consistent compared to last semester, I don’t really believe it’s changed much.
As I stated previously, I think I’m most proud of project 2, for many reasons. The first reason is simply the sheer amount of effort I had to put into this project. I could hardly find any information on my woman in red, especially about her early life besides the fact that she met her future band mates in college. The other reason I enjoyed this was because my woman in red is a musician, so I found myself having more fun writing this. I even started listening to her band’s music, not my favorite to be honest but it’s still really good. I was very much able to relate to her passions and drive for music. That is to say, I was definitely in the zone writing this paper, at least when I wasn’t up late researching.
Even though it may be my favorite assignment, project 2 was definitely the most challenging. At one point I had started thinking that my woman in red (Laura Pleasants) just chose to live a private life, because aside from a few interviews and her own website (which didn’t have much information anyway), there really wasn’t a lot on her. You know the feeling where there’s a lot of something but still somehow nothing at all, that’s how I felt writing this. I did manage to pull through but it was definitely a journey to get that paper done, my procrastination probably contributed to it but that’s besides the point.
Overall, I very much enjoyed being in this class this semester.