Welcome! This is a blog I’m writing for my junior composition class. Matt Vetter is my teacher. He likes technology and writing.
My name is Zach Carlson. I like to play guitar, draw things, watch football, and throw Frisbees. I am in the junior studio of the Graphic Design program. My hometown is Findlay, Ohio. It is a very boring place. I hope to one-day work for a sweet, motivated, and next level design firm. Preferably in New York City or Chicago, but I’ll take what I can get.
I liked 151 when I took it freshman year. I highly enjoyed the writing we were asked to do, as well as the work I produced. That said: I feel like I could have pushed myself harder in some of the writings. We did have one particularly interesting project where we were required to post a finished essay online to a website called “This I Believe”. This website is a public domain for anyone to post essays and brief writings regarding the ideas, morals, and stories which influence how they live or act.
In regards to this class, I am quite interested in the “digital” aspects of the curriculum. Digital things are cool to me. Also, the digital literacy projects that are planned differ greatly from past assignments I have worked on, and I look forward to the prospect of opening my mind to new ideas and formats for writing. In this class I hope to continue developing my writing abilities as well as expose myself to writing in new and mediums and areas. I can’t say that I am honestly worried about too much in this class.
Zach,
ReplyDeleteNo worries: I like that. I also like your ambition and direction in graphic design. I hope you can explain to me sometime what a "next level design firm" is exactly. The "This I Believe" assignment makes me think you took Craig Meyer for 151. (I've heard him talk about using that assignment before anyway)Sounds like a cool project. The literacy narrative is similar to that project in that we'll be posting those to an online database: daln.osu.edu.I'm glad we've got someone in graphic design and hope you feel comfortable enough with the first project (which is more tech-heavy than the others) to help out others in the class when they need it. Welcome to the course.