The Cessation

Oh boy. Five days of school left at the time I am writing this. It always seems like the most homework is packed on at the final weeks of the year, but thats probably just because thats when everyone's the most lazy. The final blog, a reflection of all the posts I have done throughout the whole year, it seems like a lot, and it is, 15 posts! (and guiltily I did not do most of the ones assigned). Out of the ones I did however, there wasn't anything I intentionally did to connect all of them together. Although, throughout my blog, the posts seem to be, for the most part, light-hearted and to the point. As my blogs developed, so did my writing style.

At the beginning of the year I was writing my blogs as if they were a formal paper, and not really having any fun with them, because if you try they can be a lot of fun. As my blogs progressed, I think I started to take them a little less seriously, and started to have fun while still getting the assignment done. A thing I wish I would have done more throughout the year is use more visual additions to enhance the blog posts like others did. I look at other peoples blogs who spend lots of time of them and I just say "wow". They are very colorful, picture-full, and some are even video-full. If I could do one thing different earlier in the year that would be it, just spend an extra ten minutes to add a picture, or find something really cool to enhance the blog even more and make is look super cool. My feelings towards this during the year was, I think, comparable to Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening". "And miles to go before I sleep,/ And miles to go before I sleep." The feeling of trudging along, something you have to do, even though you might not want to, and I have learned that some things are worth doing even though you might not want to.

This year in Mrs. Gilman's class has been great and memorable. My 6th grade teacher had a blog that we did in class also, but Mrs. Gilman's execution, assignments, and general everything about the blogs made it a much more enjoyable experience. Even though I am going to be VERY glad for school to be over, I am so glad I have had such a great freshman year to remember for the rest of my life, but of the words of the great Robert Frost, "Nothing Gold Can Stay."