Midterm and Peer Review

I was relieved to learn that I did well on the midterm. I had been somewhat worried about it. My only qualm with how I did was that I mis-labeled all of the "may"s in the first section, and it seems like there are a lot when you miss every one. Other than that, I felt pretty good about it.

The Peer Review process was fun. Maybe it's just because I'm a tutor, but I really enjoy brainstorming with people about ways to improve a paper whether it is theirs or my own. It's just fun, dynamic, and synergistic. Particularly, it was fun to work with Travis on his paper. We talked about ways to ridiculously extend his analogy of tutoring and golf. Good times. After the peer review session, I knew that I had a lot of work left to do, and even though I was a little bit nervous about it, I was looking forward to working on it. I've never made a video with this or any other computer program before, so the entire project has been a learning experience in terms of content as well as form. I tried reading the directions for the program, but they were so confusing and irrelevant to what I was trying to immediately do. As it turned out, I just kind of experimented with things and figured it out on my own step by step. It's been frustrating at times but still very interesting and enjoyable.