Delayed Comments

As a lot of my classmates probably just noticed, I retroactively commented on a bunch of their blog posts from earlier in the semester tonight/tomorrow morning. I did this because I was lazy early on. A procrastinator on almost everything possible in my life, I find myself doing things like this a lot. There are good and bad (mostly bad) things about this approach, but it does give me unique perspectives occasionally. This was definitely one of them.

This time I realized that I missed out. This is, as I can attest to from experience, one of the worst realizations after a considerable procrastination. Reading through everyone else's posts, I realized that I had been missing out, not only on some pretty awesome writing and interesting shit, but on a type of community that we definitely couldn't foster solely in the classroom. In the last two hours I learned way more about the people I'd been in class with for the past four months, or whatever it's been, than I had spending three hours a week in class with them.

Though I can go through and read the posts, and comment like there's no tomorrow, I'm not going to get the same thing as I would have if I had read them when they were posted, when i was supposed to. I'm pretty upset at this and it very well may have changed how I deal with class blogs in the future.

I started this year with a plethora of blogs for my classes and found them incredibly cumbersome. I hate the internet for what it's done to school. It hass let me honestly never be free of it, which is kind of an ironic curse since I don't actually have internet where I live. After reading all the blog posts for this class however, I think there is some benefit to having it. It lets us build something we probably couldn't do otherwise and share really interesting things that may or may not have a place in the classroom.

So I'll see if my ways really have been changed but, as for right now, I'm a staunch believer in the worth of this thing.