Bravisimo!

Wow. I can't believe that this semester is already coming to a close. It's crazy how quickly time flies by when your not physically keeping track of it. I guess this blog could be considered a little bittersweet. Another school semester has finally come and gone and I am definitely happy to see this one come to an end because honestly, for some reason I had a horrible case of the procrastination bug. I don't think there was one assignment I didn't procrastinate on which was sort of stupid and gave me an unnecessary load of stress. I will however miss this class. It's crazy when a class comes to an end and you realize that you will never take it again and you will probably never see or hear from your classmates again. Being an online class, we never really met eye-to-eye, well most of us, but we have learned to respect each other and to build on each others knowledge. I found myself learning more and more from all of you through our blogs and our reading discussions and even our group projects. I always considered myself to be pretty open-minded, but then again I have always being extremely stubborn. When we were asked to give our opinion on controversial topics, at first my main state of mind was, well my opinion is the obvious right one because its common sense. When I started reading all of your comments and opinions on our discussion forums I was amazed to see how much I was overlooking! I had never spent time to actually think through my conclusions and I had never had that healthy debate about what was right. This is one reason why I have to say thank you to my fellow classmates because you guys taught me that there is always another side to the story and never jump to conclusions until you have weighed all the details and read all the writing in the fine lines.

Finally I need to thank our wonderful teacher Professer Gross because she has the patience to have an online class like this. It takes a skilled teacher to figure out ways for her pupils to do group projects without being face to face with each other. The way she used her creativity to put together all these different assignments for us made it easy for us to complete them and from what she writes in her announcements, it appears we have all benefitted from these interesting assignments and are all doing fairly well. I will take what I have learned from this class and apply it to the future. And with that, I hope you all find what you are looking for and I hope you all lead successful and happy lives. Remember: Every mistake is a lesson learned, and live life with spontanaeity and open arms so you can leave without regrets. Ciao.