Again, I'm not sure if we are supposed to do a post write for our enthusiast blogs, but I thought I would. If nothing else, it will help me with the final portfolio.
The enthusiast blog was one of my least favorite projects. That might be a bit unusual since most seemed to like it, but I liked the website redesign and Wikitravel projects more. It wasn't that the blog was difficult to do, or that I didn't enjoy writing in it. I did enjoy writing in it, but it seemed to become tiresome after awhile. Towards the end, I had difficulty thinking up new topics. I also felt frustrated because I didn't know how to fix the topic, as the professor wanted, without starting over. Perhaps I picked too broad of a topic. I thought I had done a good job of relating all of the posts to the main idea, which essentially was that you can learn more from college than just academic knowledge (specifically what you learn about yourself and what life lessons you learn in college). Looking back, I should have probably chosen a simpler topic, but I thought it was the best idea I had at the time.
Although I did not enjoy the enthusiast blog project as much as some of the others, I did not have any major challenges with it, besides not knowing how to fix it and having some trouble thinking up new topics towards the end. The only other challenge I may have faced was making sure to write a new post each week, and that was only challenging because I was not used to it, having never done a blog before.
As for what I liked about the project, it was nice writing every week, and I can see how blogging could be fun. I think I just would have enjoyed the project more if I had chosen another topic. So if anything, the project taught me how important it is to pick a topic that will keep you enthusiastic throughout the blogging process. I also learned that blogging might be something I would be willing to do more of in the future, provided the topic is right.
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