Final Reflection - Blog #8

English has never been my favorite subject, so coming into this class I was dreading it.  However, the class wasn't as bad as I had expected.  The variety of the assignments made it much more interesting, while challenging me just enough to wear it wasn't boring.  One of the biggest challenges that I faced while taking this class, was speaking in front of people.  I've always struggled with getting in front of people, and doing it for a grade was even more stressful.  With this struggle I had to practice speaking by myself, just to overcome some of my nerves.  Something that surprised me was how much more comfortable that I was during the second speech.  I didn't recieve as good of a grade as the first speech, but a positive that I took away from that was that I wasn't as nervous.  I still wasn't completely nerve free, but I saw improvement which was a real surprise to me, considering when I heard we had to conduct speeches in class I freaked out.  Although I saw improvement in my speaking skills, I still did much better on the writing assignments.  I have always been a better writer than speaker, and those assignments have been the ones that I found the most success in. This class as a whole has been not only taught about how to use certain programs such as Adobe Premiere, and also taught me how to create my own blog which I had no experience with prior to taking the class.  The class also taught me that I won't be able to procrastinate as much in college as I did in high school, and served as a wake-up call to what is to come in the upcoming years.