Reflection post:

Why I wanted more but that’s ok.

When I found out that we had a course about (News) Media, and I could actually take it, I was psyched! I was looking foreward to it for month (you know, from end of registration phase to start of semester). I was so happy to get my teeth on something other than books – not that I don’t love them, but I wanted to do something more/ else too.

When I learned that we had to post weekly posts, I remembered how I and most other students (not gonna lie, like at least 70%), for that matter, hate weekly writing assignments. Because let’s face it: we get a truck load of readings to do every week and then we also still need to summarise every bloody lesson! But I thought maybe I was being to hard on myself and writing every week would get easier – news flash – it didn’t, and that’s ok. After a few weeks I realised that I’d have to work a little harder for this class than I thought but OK, I can do it.

And then we finally started with what I wanted to learn. I wanted to understand everything about the news and at least touch upon all the areas of news media. That’s also why it’s ok that I didn’t get to have it all – I may have gone in with a little too high expectations, but that’s also ok. It is still one of my – of nom my one – favourite course I’ve taken so far.

Actually limiting the number of topics turned out to be a good thing. That way we were able to discuss and reflect on the topics in more detail and have an interesting but also pleasant lesson at a horrible time like that ( I’m really sorry but 8am is hells punishment for me…).

I just wished we would have done a bit more on the strategies behind Journalism and maybe touch upon how much we, as consumers, are able to detect the strategies used in an article.

thanks to everyone for this semester :)

Regards

PS: I have no idea why my formatting is off in my last post, maybe because this is w it ten from a tablet since my laptop is send in for repair…