The End is Near

Today is November 22nd. November. Already. I'm not quite sure where the time has gone, but yet another month in my senior year here at Purdue is almost at an end. There are so many emotions involved with this. Happiness. Sadness. Relief. Regret. It would make for an extremely long blog to list all the emotions that I'm feeling about my senior year and I doubt Jasmine would want to read that long of a blog.

I'm trying to take everything that happens this year moment-to-moment. So for this blog I am concentrating on the end of the service learning project/COM 320 as a whole. This class has been very interesting and has shown me a lot about myself, especially with how I work in groups. Now that it's the end of the semester I feel as if our group is more committed to the work at hand and in trying to get it done as soon as we can. This could be because the sooner we finish the project, the sooner we are done with class but that is beside the point. There were a few times this semester where we did not put as much effort into projects and assignments that we probably should have, but now I feel like we are exerting more than enough effort to finish this project. The project was fun, but I'm glad it's almost at an end. Assignments as time-consuming as this one has been are not my favorite thing in the world.

I am glad, however, that I have learned so much about myself and how I work in groups. I have learned that I am not very good at certain tasks while I am excellent at others. The group's feedback this past week helped with that. I have learned that I am too uptight with groups. I am disappointed when things do not go according to my plan and get a in a little over my head sometimes because I try to take on too much or expect too much. I have to give up some power to my other group members so the assignment at hand can end up better than if I was working by myself. What I am good at, however, are organizational tasks. I am good at taking notes and reminding group members of tasks that need to be accomplished as well as other things.

This semester has been interesting and more fun than I expected. And as the semester comes to an end, I am happy with my performance as well as my group's performance in the class.

Katie Spalding