FRO12 DTC

Blogging is something new to me. My blogging experience allowed me to see what other people are like and to show people who I am. What I like about blogging is that you can really say anything because you’re not going to be graded or corrected for writing your blog. I follow the vlogbrothers on Tumblr because they have interesting posts about many varying topics. They try to make the world a better place as each day goes by and they inspire me to do better things sometimes. Soooo, this has been my blogging experience so far. 🙂

I personally do not like blogging. I’m more of a private person; I don’t like the idea that my thoughts, feelings, and dreams are online for everyone to see. But I do enjoy reading blogs. I feel like through the blogging assignments, I got to know my classmates better. I don’t really follow blogs… But I occasionally check out http://www.polyvore.com/ for fashion inspiration.

This was my first experience with blogging. I knew what blogging was before but never really like the whole idea of writing down personal things/experiences about myself . I am the type of person that likes to keep those things to myself and just share it with people who are very close to me. However, blogging for freshmen seminar has changed that for me.  Now, instead of it being a hassle its just a fun way to express your thoughts or ideas on certain topics.  For now  my blogging experience will be put to a stop but maybe sometime in the future ill  create my own blog with a couple of friends! 🙂

 

Thoughts about blogging-

Not really a huge blogging fan, but I think so far I’m fine with it. Then again I’ve only done one blog so far prior to this.

Personally I feel like there isn’t a need to blog every week. Blogging should be something you want to do and would give you joy for doing it. But making blogs for classes kind of restricted the purpose of the blog. The stuff you write on your blog should be easily taken out of your brain and not something you would have to drag yourself to think of something interesting to talk about. But again, I’ve only done 2 blogs(this one included) so my opinion might change later on.

Now to make up some assignments…

About me-

I’m 18 years old asian boy living in Queens, NY. I graduated from Francis Lewis High School in June 2012. So far I have very little idea to what I’m going to do in Baruch, hopefully that’ll change in a few months. I enjoy playing handball once in a while. Not a hardcore player nor an active player. I’m really great at procrasinating, I can’t wait to get school over with. So far I enjoyed Baruch College very much, met a lot of new friends and lost a few old friends because we had to split to separate schools. Hopefully this will be a fun year.

Perfect Class-

My image of a perfect class is a teacher who can make the class laugh and share his knowledge while doing it. My math teacher back in junior year in High School was probably the best teacher I ever had. Classmates should have a decent sense of humor and knows when to be a bit laid back and when to be serious. Not talking while the teacher is speaking would be great because I simply cannot stand others running their mouth when I’m trying to pay attention. Whispering is fine but as long as it’s not going to last for the whole class. Anyway, I’m not that picky, as long as when people know when to be serious, its fine with me.

So far my blogging experience has been pretty good. I didn’t mind writing about the different topics we were given and it was a nice change from the normal papers due in my other classes. I liked how we had a variety of topics to write about and even with each blog, there were different ways of approaching it (like a video, a song list, a story, etc.). I also like that you are able to comment on other people’s blogs and interact with everyone. I can’t think of anything that I didn’t like about my blogging experience except the fact that every time I wrote a blog it would erase it. But other than that, the blog is very easy to use and read. I don’t think it’s any different than what I expected a blog would be like. I’m not a blog person outside of this class so I don’t follow any online blogs

Thus far, my blogging experience has been surprisingly fun. It seems like a chore to do at times, but when I actually get down to it, I enjoy writing about more personal things. Blogs to me are personal and that is what I like about it. Writing in school is boring to me as the topics don’t relate to me at all. I like writing but the writing in school just doesn’t fit me, but the blogs are a different story; it is about me and I can express myself. I have recently started blogging, but only on a private tumblr with my girlfriend. It is fun, cute, and passes the time.

Blogging was never a big part of my life. I had a blog before, xanga? a while back, and tumblr, also a while back. I usually stay on the site for about a few minutes and then I just log off for months. I don’t really see the point of having a blog, rather than typing about your day. I think I’d be better off just telling someone about my day rather than letting everyone in the world see it. I don’t enjoy blogging and I don’t think I ever will. I followed my friends’ blogs but it was always the same. Just the same pictures constantly being re-posted one after another. All in all, I just think blogging isn’t right for me.

My blogging experience has been good so far. I’ve had blogging experience from a class in high school, but this one is definitely more interesting. Blogging can be a boring experience unless you read and write about things that interest you. This is different than what I expected because the blog I had to do in high school was really boring so I expected this to be really boring too, but it really isn’t that bad. I’m not much of a blogger, but I do read sports related blogs occasionally to keep me up to date on important events. http://espn.go.com/espn/blog/index/_/name/berry_matthew This blog is one of the ESPN top Fantasy Football analyst’s and during the football season I check his blogs for scores, injury updates, etc. Another blog that I check occasionally is http://www.sbnation.com/ This site connects me to a whole list of about 300 sports related blogs, which again keeps me up to date on all sports related topics.

Despite the moaning and groaning upon the knowledge that having to post these blog entries were required to pass this course, this experience was not all that bad. While yes, having to share personal information left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth, being able to write down random thoughts – be they personal or fake – was quite enjoyable somewhat. I, myself, don’t actually know what the reason is, perhaps I’m just that much of a masochist, but I’m guessing the enjoyment stems from being to be able create a piece of composition without having to worry about the thesis of my passage, proper grammar and the like. The 500 word minimum on the “Who am I” assignment was unbearable, however.

As for the blogs I follow:

http://experience-enjoy.tumblr.com/
A friend from high school is running a blog that both highlights and records her food based expeditions. If you’re looking for restaurant recommendations in NYC, look no further!

http://allaboutami.tumblr.com/
I love doing crafts, since I seem to get bored way too often. While I’ve stopped focusing on crochet and started to turn towards sewing, it’s still nice to see all the adorable designs that the owner of this blog comes up with.

Well to be honest I’ve never had a blog before so this is my first experience. I never really thought I’d start but here I am right now blogging. Blogging has been what I had expected, lots of writing. I enjoy that it helps me to kind of know my classmates better and get to know things about them such as some of their interest. What I don’t like about it is that I usually forget when a Blog entry is due. It’s different from what I expected because it’s kind of like facebook and twitter where you just write or tweet what’s on your mind. I don’t really follow any blogs besides the ones in our class but I guess facebook, twitter and instagram can be somewhat like a blog. Blogging has been fun for me it gives you a chance to write what’s on your mind and see what is on others.