All Caught Up

Monday began with me being discussion leader. I didn’t really know what to do except to say except next, in fact now that I think about it I really don’t see the point in having a discussion leader, except to put one person on the spot when the movement of the feedback stops. It was a bit nerve racking personally and I found myself accidently speaking quiet when I should have been loud and vice versa. However it was another week of work shopping each other paper’s. Surprised as I am, I’m not bored with critiquing papers yet, mainly because it is very interesting to see what people wrote about. It’s almost like getting to know each other by our interests, like if you have passion behind what you wrote it shows, and I love when I see that. I only hope next week when it is my turn my passion shows in my paper. Although I’m not sure how much passion you can have behind a visual analysis paper. I mean some papers don’t and sot of can’t have that much passion behind it, but it all depends on the type paper it is. I did feel particularly awkward during this week when reviewing one person’s paper. As much as I’d like to believe that race doesn’t matter and all that jazz, sometimes some of the things people say without thinking it through can be frustrating. One student wrote his paper about how two black athletes made realizing African Americans are equals possible (basically) when to me being a minority I see that yes every step we take makes seeing that we are equals better but it doesn’t mean that everyone sees us equals because of those two athletes. Well anyways I pointed out the flaw and the awkwardness was over, and tat was this week.