The end of the year came like a whirlwind of long hours putting projects together and last minute cramming to finish tests, but overall it has been a great year. I did work that I’m proud of and I felt that this semester I have gotten a lot of valuable life information from my classes. Media Management had more depth than I originally imagined it would and it wasn’t difficult as much as just interesting. Media Writing II was a bit on the boring side and sometimes too focused on singular ideas, but news writing isn’t a creative art. I can’t say that I really enjoyed that class- I also can’t say that I’m a good writer either. JavaScript formatting was by far the most frustrating and difficult class I have ever had. Things didn’t work the way they should and so many issues with cross compatibility really made it a pain. I did learn so much more about JavaScript, but it felt like it was at a price. I don’t think it’s anything that I’m ever going to 100% excel in. PR and Marketing was very interesting and I can now right a very decent press release- at times I loved this class more than I could have imagined and then I could turn around a hate everything it represents. I enjoy the work behind PR, but I’m really not the kind of guy to go around selling myself or my ideas. Introduction for Designers was a great web application class that allowed me to work strict XHTML into my JavaScript (whenever it decided to work properly) and gave me a sense of completion to many of the projects I had started in Intro to Website design. Overall the year was incredible and I feel more fulfilled than I have in the past, but things still linger for me. The idea of how I have no idea how this will all turn out still brings some fear, but I can’t really think about it too much. I don’t care if life doesn’t have meaning, but I do care if I’m at least making a positive impact. Next semester will bring in field work and broadcasting until graduation where all the questions will be up in the air and I’m sure I will still have no answers.
