Closing Thoughts

We have only one more class left? Golly gee willikers! How the time flies! It is with great sadness that I am looking forward to the end of our intense summer course next Monday. We had a lot of work but also a lot of fun, and there was not a day I did not look forward to our two hour and thirty minutes class on MTR even as I fell behind on projects sometimes.

One of the most difficult assignments for me in our class was essay 2: document design. I had a lot of difficulty with it because first of all I am not a very artistic person, and then I had never used Microscotch Word before to do anything else besides what that program was best programed to do: word processing. I had to use word because I did not know how to use Forefront or any other fancy program but I managed to primitively clobber together a decent looking flyer. Another reason why my final essay 2 draft was only decent is because I did not have my flyer design completely finished for the workshop so that did not help because I did not get as much feedback as if I had a final design.

Speaking of workshops I have to admit that the instant feedback system on our rough drafts was one the most helpful aspects of our class even as our classmates left brutally honest comments I was able to get past the initial feeling of "screw it" and grow as a writer and then going on to craft even better/readable technical document.

Another really helpful aspect of our course was that we got to work on a cover letter, and a resume for a job application package. I had written a cover letter, and a resume before this class when I was applying for jobs but it did not follow the rules or design guides that our book went over but after rewritting them and getting feedback from the class I am confident that if I send them as part of a job application package they would certainly land me an interview with wichever company I apply for.

And that is my final thoughts on our month and a half intense summer course. As a reward for reading my post here is a funny picture for your enjoyment from one of my favorites webcomics website: "The Perry Bible Fellowship"

Yours truly

Sandro Vicente