Final Thoughts

Jesse Gotlib
4/28/11

It is coming down to the end of the semester and my thoughts on this Writing class have been journalism.  This Ethnography project throughout this semester has made this writing class seem like a journalism class.  With observations and analyzing behavior, I felt like I've been a reporter working undercover at some points this past year.  I feel that I've been challenged to a point where I can grow as a writer and a student.  From taking down random observations in my journal and at that moment relating that observation to my opinion; and the relativity between the two astonishes me.

The project on the Bridgewater Dining Room has been interesting.  From a place where I've never even heard of, to a place where I ran across and decided to go simultaneously with buddies, to a place where I decided to go to observe and analyze has been a turn of events to say the least.  I didn't even know the place existed and now I've visited tons of times and analyzed each and every aspect of the Dining Room.  I feel like this project was a bit lengthy, but helped us work on dedication to a certain topic.  I haven't quite finished editing my final piece yet, however I know what direction I know I want to go in and I plan on feeling a sense of accomplishment once I finish it.