Knowing Your Audience Analysis

     It's almost funny how we all come from different places, yet many of us are alike in more ways than one. In the past four weeks we have a done more than one assignment that helps others understand what we are, a room with a window being the first. That assignment helped us see where everyone was learning from, and a good bit of other information about their lives with some observation, but the most informational has surely been the knowing your audience questions and answers.
     After reading all of the answers to the questions, I realized the one way we are all most similar is that we each have a plan of some sort, and in most cases that is the reason we are here. It appears that I have an honest audience, which I believe is very good. If someone were holding back or being fake it might make an assignment similar to this one quite difficult. While reading answers to questions like 'your worst fears', or 'what makes you happy', I could tell that everyone is being genuine and true. Even if it seemed goofy or maybe even a little crazy, at least the person answered the question honestly.
     Many of my classmates including myself have a family or  are planning on having a family in the future, and while reading many of these posts, I could tell there are many caring and good people in my audience as well. It's easy to see we have a wide group of ages in this class, but that is also a good thing, I believe it is important so that we see we are all equal in this world. Some may have certain skills or qualifications, and we are all ultimately different, but ultimately we are also equal. I feel as if I actually know more about my classmates or audience than I would if attending a seated course because of reading all these answers. I feel emotions for some of my audience when I read what they are writing about, sometimes joy, others sorrow, and twice confused.We all have our own plan, and we are all here to work on making that plan happen.

Online Summer Classes

When I signed up for summer classes this year at OTC, I had been told by friends and even the employee in student services that these classes will be very challenging. I understood why they were saying this, but when I started the classes, I was still surprised by the workload. They were not joking, almost every single day before and after work I have to do at least 1 assignment to not fall behind, and my days off from work are spent getting as much knocked out as possible in my free time. If I could go back in time to add one of these classes to a previous semester, I most definitely would. Even though that semester would have been a little more than full-time I have had a couple of semesters like that and the overall load seems about equal to taking just 2 online summer classes, but the online classes seem to involve more actual assignments so they are probably even more difficult. Many night I have been up until 3 am trying to finish up some assignments so that my workload on the next day is a little lighter, and then towards the end of the week, when I'm working the most, I have less things to get done so I'm not so overwhelmed. It is most definitely more difficult than I had thought to juggle work, family, and these online summer classes .I do not doubt my ability to complete these classes, I just wish i would have taken the path of least resistance. Just four weeks left of this crazy busyness and maybe I can take a day off, that sounds nice.

6/29/12

I Believe I Play Guitar

I started playing the guitar back in Middle school, 7th grade to be more exact. At first I borrowed an electric guitar from a friend until later when my parents bought be my first one from eBay. I picked it up pretty quickly, and was able to learn any song (realistically easy song) I wanted to in about a day per song. All I wanted to do then was play guitar, all day long. Some days I did. I played until my fingers hurt so bad I just couldn't play anymore. After about 4 years of heavy practice, in high-school I started a band with a friend. It was what I always wanted to do, and one of the main reasons I started playing guitar. I enjoyed it more than anything at that time, and I continued to enjoy it until my freedom to play music at venues was taken from me. After a long while I joined another band, one that was a bit more serious. More concerts to play, some recording, and a lot more practice. I was in this band longer than the other, and enjoyed it even more. We played several shows before I left the band. My wife had just gotten pregnant and it was time to find a better paying job and work more hours. Ever since then I might pick up a guitar once every 3 months. I still love it, but when life changes you have to change with it.   288 words

This I Believe

1. I believe I am a great father
2. I believe I am a great husband
3. I believe I am a human
4. I believe I play guitar
5. I believe I work hard
6. I believe I want a better job
7. I believe I want a vacation
8. I believe I am a relaxed person
9. I believe I am a good student
10. I believe I have earned what I have
11. I believe I am a fortunate person
12. I believe I do not like blogs
13. I believe I enjoy working on my car
14. I believe I am a good employee
15. I believe I am responsible.

Jung Typology Test

About and hour ago I took the Jung typology test (http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm) for an English assignment and after looking into my results of being an INTJ(Introversion, Intuition, thinking, Judging), I was surprised. The test results match many of my behaviors and characteristics of my current life, and was pretty accurate on how I handle work and my social life. I'm sure a portion of the statements I read were very general and apply to most individuals, but overall the test showed a few things about myself that I did not see before. Like how I incorporate visuals into all of my projects, whether they are writing or not. Now that I know this, it might make writing a bit easier for me.

Blogging

While I do own a Facebook that I check very rarely, this will be my first actual blog. I'm not so sure I will get anything out of this, but I will give it a chance and see what happens. Why not?