End of Year Reflections

As the year comes to an end, it is almost as if the universe slows down for a time. The world allows us time to process everything we have seen, done, and encountered in the past year. In just a short five months, I have learned to see the world through a different point of view. My Writing and Editing in Print and Online class, one of my favorites in my Editing, Writing, and Media major, has taught me so much. In our final project, we had to represent a campaign or organization in real life. Each group had a distinct and unique experience with each of their respective groups. For example, one group represented Skateworld for their group. Their constrant was major because they had little to no contact with the group half way through their campaign. My group had no real exigency because it was a political non-profit. The holidays are the slowest time of the year in politics, so that forced us to become more creative in order to inspire a true exigency within them. Another group represented a law office. While the lawyer has the highest rating possible, their social media present was lacking. That group had a true exigency to curate her social media space. They employed the lawyer's logo into the design of her social media pages in order to draw everything together. Design truly is capable of drawing completely unrelated things together. The use of colors, buzzwords, and fonts all contribute to a cohesion within texts. The group who represented Girls On the Run utilized glitter and fun colors to be as exciting as their charity is. The charity helps young girls and gives them mentors and a safe place to play and grow. To attract young girls and their mothers, the group utilized glitter and bright colors to draw attention. I do think this narrows their scope, though. I know it should be fun, but tomboy girls, like myself (and I'm sure some of you fellow conservationists), would not be interested. If anything, it would have made me feel ostracized and uninterested. But, you can never please everyone. Truly, the biggest lesson I learned from this project and my peers is to believe in your work. I heard from so many students, including myself, that we remade multiple artifacts and hated a lot of our original work. Don't get me wrong, curation involves a give and take. Nothing is ever perfect. especially in the beginning stages of any piece. However, I think with a little more confidence within us we all would have started on a better note than we did. Curation processes are always long; however, we could help ourselves by ensuring the process starts at a fruitful point.