This semester I’m really looking forward to the theme of the class itself. I’m excited to be able to explore deeper the meanings in the music we listen to and how we can creatively and objectively bring a fresh perspective to old music and see how the classics still influence modern day creators. This semester I need to make sure that I don’t trip myself up on my pacing and I will need to focus on consolidating my ideas into a few points that can be explored deeply instead of many points that are touched on but don’t offer any real substance to the main point of my argument. In order to try and correct for this tendency I have been looking forward to constructive criticism and utilizing the writing center to its fullest extent. 

When it comes to the issue of time, much like everyone else I’m constantly trying to make time, but yet I’m always short on it. In order to better stay on top of assignments like blog posts I’m going to try and be doing them in advance. The long term thinking is that if I complete most or all of them early I will have more time to focus on other courses and when it comes time to do our big papers I can just focus on that instead of a post and other homework’s and after all that id still need to work on the paper. I hope to gain a better understanding of our written language and further explore subtle concepts that most people gloss over when first listening to a piece of music or reading a poem. I also am looking forward to the flow of creative ideas from my peers as well as the podcasts from the blog posts to help give me inspiration for my own paper and ho to make it unique in its own way that allows for my ideas and arguments to be expressed in an easy to understand yet sophisticated manor to show my readers that a complex argument can be made simple and a simple argument can be put eloquently. 

And a quote from a gentleman known for his… unusual way of putting things “Rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk in order to provide articles for people who can’t read.”

― Frank Zappa