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Reflection

 I have been thinking critically about this since yesterday after class. I will not pick a best post for any of my entries. To me, all of my blog posts are done involving creativity, professionalism, civic engagement, and multimodal design. To pick one is ludicrous. So for this I will not pick a single one because to me they all exemplify my honest creative work with professionalism. Now the civic engagement option is different. I do not know which of the following blog posts people like the most. I can check the views and see my second and seventh have gotten the most compared to the others. Is this category selected through comments? If that is the case, it could be my fourth post. Grading myself is arbitrary and I do not want to compare my work. All my work is equal in my eyes. 

I will dispute this until the end of time, but my seventh post is my most creative so I will be going my morals for this only category. I felt strange to make people laugh for a school project and receive praise for it. I can recall moments in the past where I try to make a presentation or paper more comedic and the teacher shutting me down. The teachers have shut me down faster than Gordon Ramsay does to restaurants on his show Kitchen Nightmares. 


My point was it felt peculiar to be rewarded for being funny. The stereotypical response to anything humorous is to shut it down. Hey, you are being disruptive... go out in the hallway NOW! I can't keep doing this with you anymore. I heard that lots of times in elementary and middle school because I did not follow the status quo. Look at me now Ms. Mueller, I could take your job as the English teacher at St. Mary. Let the record show, I would never go back to St. Mary's and take her job, but it would be kind of funny. 

To be serious again, I do not think I can choose one person as my people's choice. I will list three to five blogs I really enjoyed. I believe these people modeled creativity and professionalism in their posts which is what I mainly focused on. They all can count as one vote to make it easier, maybe? 

People's Choice list:
And myself because I am egotistical. Nah that's a joke. I'm only joking. 

Thank you to everyone who read my posts, makes the butterflies in my stomach fly around. I must be happy, I don't know. Its time to sulk and disassociate. I cringed typing that yet I don't want to delete it, so smell ya later! (Again I cringed myself) 

Comments

  1. Melanie Camila AlfaroApril 19, 2024 at 9:42 PM

    Thank you for the shout out dawg. Ending a blog post with "smell ya later" is crazy but, I respect it. I really liked your blog!

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  2. JordanApril 23, 2024 at 8:01 AM

    That is a horrifying picture of Gordon Ramsay. I appreciate your honesty in this post, and I think that your humor is a huge part of your charm. Sometimes people take themselves too seriously (myself included) and people like you remind me to chill out. Thanks Eli!

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