{"id":49,"date":"2016-11-29T19:52:48","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T19:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/collegeandcaviar\/?p=49"},"modified":"2016-12-01T22:25:19","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T22:25:19","slug":"post-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/collegeandcaviar\/2016\/11\/29\/post-3\/","title":{"rendered":"When Will My Reflection Show Who I Am on the Inside?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Starting in grade school I always got in trouble for writing too casually. Perhaps it was due to the immense amount of Lizzy Maguire I watched, a show where the narration was in the style of a stereotypical middle school girl’s diary, or maybe it was because my ideas best flowed out my head in a way similar to if I was verbally communicating them. So, I like writing this way, “casual” is the tone of my outlines and notes, but theres a lot more to an essay than tone (i.e. content).<\/p>\n

With that being said, I would like to refresh your memory to my first introductory blog post. Oh yes a sweet innocent girl a mere one week ago\u00a0who thought this “pursuit of blogging<\/a>” would be easy; so easy, in fact, that I took the 5 extra steps to insert this Legally Blonde gif at the end of it (reproduced below for your reference).<\/p>\n

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Yes, Leslie. It was hard. But not all challenging\u00a0things aren’t fun! Honestly, I feel as if hypothetically<\/em> I got a bad grade on this blog, this low number really wouldn’t affect\u00a0my opinion on myself. Will it affect my grades? Yes. But will it reflect how I feel about myself as a human being? No.<\/p>\n

To me, this blog has been therapeutic, I get to be myself, talk normally!, and even reflect on something I have been thinking about since the first day of school. I feel like this blog resembles me, and I am proud of who I am. To be brutally honest, this topic made me reflect a lot on who I am, if I can stick to my values, if I am at school for the right reasons, if I am going to this particular school for the right reasons, and if I know and am acting on the reasons for why I am at school! This class as a whole (and the very difficult time I have had adjusting to college) has made me rethink why I am on this earth. Is it to be in the business school so I can make money and have a dog and house when I’m older? Or am I completely off course and should follow what I am passionate about, maybe not what I am good at? This class, and the synthesis essay in particular, has made me rethink my life. Where do I get my motivation from? What are my passions?<\/p>\n

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So yes, this was hard. But revising Essay 3 into a blog has made me think more and more about what I am saying I believe, and as I write it in a more casual tone I start to realize I need to act on my beliefs.<\/p>\n

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Back to the nitty-gritty stuff: the changes I made specifically to my synthesis essay I did through a series of strategic moves. First, I reread my entire synthesis. Then, I highlighted key paragraphs, phrases, or general claims I made. Next, I organized them into an outline and wrote down real life examples of each. After that, I decided: “scratch the individual examples for each claim!” and instead\u00a0have one clear and personal example that I could follow up with throughout my blog (this was Dom’s story). After that, I started writing. I wrote way too much, and am still in the process of cutting it down. I am a very experienced diary-writer, so I got too into it. Gosh, the best part about writing diaries is not that you let out your pre-teen emotions and angst, no no it is going back years after and laughing at what you wrote. So In a way, that is reflection. The primary act of blogging in a way is reflection as well, so then I guess this reflection of my blog is then reflection inception, refleception if you will.<\/p>\n

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The best part of this web logging experience was finding images to go along with my writing – it was hard but similar to the “picture essay” workshop we did in that it was creative and out of the box, both adjectives I extremely enjoy. The images add a little mind break and can more creatively force the reader to make connections (so instead of above saying of refleception was my joke that relates to the move Inception – I put a nice gif of Leonardo DiCaprio being woken up in that very same movie!)<\/p>\n

Making it clear that my target audience was prospective college students, current college students, as well the recently departed<\/del> graduated was really hard. In order to be more apparent in who I am speaking to,\u00a0I used a technique I also used in my synthesis – a call out. I say, “so you college students!”<\/a> and call them out, bring them into the conversation, and make this problem more relevant to them so that they really consider what I am saying. This act I believe is a huge expectation of a blog, and should be used in writing of all kind.<\/p>\n

Blogs are for enjoyment, for tips and advice, a distraction from your own life and a focus on another’s, or in some cases perhaps a magnification\/reflection on your own life. We expect blogs to be easy to read, funny (sometimes), and a call out to something (a product? a lifestyle? a thought?). So as a “climb” to write this blog (please reference the gif below in order to get a sense of my experience with this assignment when I say “climb”)<\/p>\n

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Source: Opinion As a Movie Freak<\/p><\/div>\n

…I honestly think I did pretty well! Like I said, it was hard but fun. I stayed true to my voice and my opinions, made it funny (hopefully) and interactive through the lists and media sources. I also tried to make my blog template amusing and pleasing to the eye while still carrying the motif of the college experience (*nudge nudge* header photo).<\/p>\n

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