So this week, the assignments were to tie the threads, to somehow make all of the components of our MRPs cohesive. We needed to make some sort of way to navigate through our blogs other than through the topics page. Also, we were supposed to review the peer reviews that we had given to others and that others had given to us, then compare them and decide how they were different and what we would strive for next time. My goal was to be creative and somehow come up with a unique idea to accomplish this. Unfortunately, of course, that fell through. I had great intentions and hopes, but those almost always fall through and I end up just doing whatever I can to meet deadlines (as I type this at 10:18 pm, one hour and 42 minutes before it’s due :).

This week, I definitely didn’t get as creative as I had hoped. I don’t know if everyone from this semester or last year all used the links at the bottom of their pages to tie the threads or not, but I honestly didn’t know any other way to set that up. Had it not been for Geneva emailing Mrs. McComas and Mrs. McComas replying to the class list, I would never have guessed how to set up the boxes at the bottom of the pages and stuff. Whew! Other processes involved in this week were trying to think critically about how I am a reviewer. It’s like being a meta-meta thinker. Thinking about thinking about someone else’s work. Hmmmm….Figure that one out! It seemed easy enough when I was doing it, but when you think about the actual process, it gets kinda tricky!

From this week, I realized that I will somehow always get stuff done......sometimes at the expense of lots of other stuff, but usually sleep. And I realized that it doesn’t matter if an assignment gets done a week before it’s due or a minute; it’s going to meet the deadline as long as it’s before. Period. Also, I think I realized how often I rush through stuff that could very well be important to other people. I just started reading Mere Christianity this week and one of the most profound statements I read (and this is definitely paraphrasing here) is that as humans, we often get upset at people for not meeting the expectations we have of them, when we fail drastically at meeting them ourselves. So I should only expect out of people what I deliver myself. A good peer review deserves a good one in return (not that that situation occurred with my particular group…I’m just saying….:)