Ask Not For Who The Idea Calls

It should be fairly evident at this point that I am trying to comment my way to an A. That being said, it has provided me some insight that I might not have found, had I been responsible--which might be the blog equivalent of the lottery, or at least a carnival game.

Simply, our class blogs have gotten way better through the course of the semester. 

Some observations (I'm going to use generalizations here, but they aren't meant to pigeon-hole):

• January and early February as well as mid to late April have the most posts. It seems the idea of getting ahead and making up ground are more prevalent than discipline and consistency (which is no accusation, I assure you)
• Early blogs tend to meander. Most of us seemed to be blogging for the grade, and our lack of ideas showed.
• When given a prompt, we make a short answer exam. Particularly with the speeches of the Symposium, there are more bullet points used than nearly anywhere else. We also restate the question and give a brief answer.
• Talli's (sorry, I can't spell your nickname) blogs come through in her voice more than most. Seriously, read them and try not to hear her. Maybe it's the vivid language. At any rate, it struck me.
• Later blogs have more opinions and points to make. Connor really made the jump with his blog about marijuana. Most early blogs did not have such gusto behind them. 

In summation, the blogs seemed to work. Even though my own blog is quite "Lacking," in general, thoughts definitely developed well through the blogs.