Drew's Blog

My favorite blog post this quarter (surprisingly), was my personal analysis of my bad blogging habits. Partially because it was the only choice I had. But mostly because it epitomizes what we should be doing as american studies students, bloggers, and citizens of the community: thinking critically about WHY something happened. I think this represents my growth as a student and an individual: at the beginning of the year, I would have made excuses or ignored the problems I had. I can tell you this is true, because that is exactly what I did at the end of first quarter, when I had exactly two blogs. Now that I have had time to develop as a student, I have learned to look critically at my problems and learn a lesson from them. There's no escaping the crummy job I did at blogging this quarter. I deserve whatever bad grade you are going to give me for my lackluster effort. But the lesson I have learned as a result of my failure shows just how much I have learned as a student in American Studies. This isn't about memorizing all the presidents of the United States, or being able to recite all the key points of EAA. This is being able to go forth in the world and look critically at the actions of myself and others, and learn from these actions. And this lesson is more important that any APs on my transcript, or GPAs or ACTs or AP Tests scores. This is a lesson I can carry forward with me through the rest of my life in high school, college, and the world. And that represents the true depth of learning that has taken place in me from the moment I stepped into room 467 on a hot august afternoon to the brutal days of summer that I come to class in now, as a true American Studies student.