Wow, the end of the semester is quickly approaching. It's amazing how fast these past few weeks flew by! At this point in the semester I've learned a lot in all of my classes. I learned more about bilingualism, Latin American Politics, Foreign American Policy, the atmosphere, and I have also learned a lot about html and media writing. This semester has definitely been an interesting one because of all the new things I learned and at times struggling to learn/grasp these new concepts.
I have really enjoyed rhet 233 because I learned to write in a different style that I hadn't really been exposed to before. It was nice to learn to write differently instead of writing the traditional way, which sometimes tends to get a bit monotonous. These past few weeks I have been working on my final project which has been an interesting process. It has been an interesting process because I feel like it's been actually a bit more difficult to create than I expected. The final project is like a final paper, but at the same time it really isn't like a paper because you need to incorporate images and videos to make it more like a webpage and interactive. This part of the project has been a bit difficult for me to be honest, but hopefully my results end up being good.
I will now return to working on all of the other papers, projects, and presentations that I have to complete before the semester ends. Wish me luck!
April 25, 2018
Hi everyone! It's been a while since I last updated my blog honestly! These past few weeks have been filled with a lot of exams, essays, and projects. Not too long ago UIUC had its Spring Break and I was lucky enough to go to D.C. for a class for the week. During that week my classmates and I got to explore the city and be tourists for a bit.
I got to visit many museums and national monuments while I was there! My favorite museum was the Portrait Gallery and the American History Museum! At the Portrait Gallery I was able to see Michele and Barack Obama's portraits which looked very different to the other presidential portraits. The American History Museum was my favorite because I really enjoyed the exhibits about the presidents and first ladies. I liked learning more about what happened while they were in office. I probably spent my entire visit in those two exhibits!
While I was in D.C. my class and I also got the opportunity to meet different organizations and learn more about their jobs in D.C.. It was definitely a very busy Spring Break, but I wouldn't change it at all! Now, for these next few weeks I have to efficiently finish all of my projects and essays and study for my exams, so I can pass all of my classes. Thank you for reading!
April 2, 2018
These past few weeks have been filled with a lot of school work and studying. I feel like I am constantly feeling like I don't have enough time to finish all of my work because of all the things I have going on. This past week I was able to update my homepage though! I finally changed the layout to my homepage and it looks a bit better, as you probably have already noticed. I still need to update the pages to my projects because they still look like what they did when I first created them. I want to make them look more modern, but who knows how I end up redesigning them. I hope that once I am able to update them they will look nice.
This past week was also really warm and sunny outside for a few days! I got to use my friend's penny board a bit because the weather was so nice. I also walked around everywhere instead of taking the bus to my classes or where I needed to get. I hope that the weather continues to get warmer because I am quite about ready for winter to come to an end and have more spring weather. I also think that the nice weather allowed me to relax and destress a little because all of the school work was just starting to stress me out.
March 3, 2018
This week's forgery project was honestly slightly more challenging for me. First of all, I did not exactly know what kind of project I could forge and once I chose a project I did not exactly know how to make it look believable. Once I finished my forgery project, which was a ransom note from the Jonbenet Ramsey murder case, I did not know how to upload my project on my homepage and make it look believable. I didn't know how to upload pdf files, and I honestly struggled uploading my project online, but after multiple times of trying I was finally able to upload my project and make it look real. While working on this project I wished I knew how to work html and technology a little bit better, so I could have created something more intricate, but for a beginner I think I created a decent project.
I look forward in making more projects this semester and improving my html skills, so my homepage at the end of the semester looks great! For right now I will continue to try figuring out how to add tables to my blog to make it look better. I will also try to figure out if I can change the font to my words in my page in general.
P.S. this rainy and cold weather is making me wish it were warm and sunny outside. I also wish I were in the city right now, so enjoy the picture I took a while ago.
I personally have never been extremely savvy with technology, so creating my own homepage and blog has been interesting and confusing all at the same time. I find creating my own homepage and blog posts interesting because in high school I tried starting my own blog page. I began to create my blog page through one of those websites that already has the templates set up for you, so it was easy to create it. Even though I set up my blog page I never actually posted anything. My original idea/plan was to post pictures of nature and write about them, but I never got around to actually doing that.
Now that I am creating my own homepage without a website doing it for me has been challenging and confusing because I am not too sure what I am doing with the coding. Even though I find it confusing and challenging, I am still enjoying it because I am learning to do something I am not familiar with, which will allow me to broaden my horizons and introduce me to how a homepage is created, which could be useful at some point in my future. When I started creating my homepage in class I found it easy to log onto the server, but once I started coding I got a bit confused because I no longer had an idea as to what I was doing. I found it useful when the professor showed us different ways to code in class because it gave me a better idea as to what I had to do. Therefore, as of right now, I am still navigating my way on creating a better homepage for myself, and I hope that I will be able to properly create an interesting homepage that will showcase my work for my class RHET 233 this semester.
January 30, 2018