Writing

Writing projects are often the big thing when it comes to the academic setting—whether it’s as simple as writing a definition on a quiz sheet or as elaborate as a research article or a graduate studies thesis. As duties of the academic doings, writing assignments can seem to be boring to many. Maybe it’s because one doesn’t find out how to make it entertaining, important or special in some other way; but when one tries, wonderful things can happen.

This blog page here is intended both as a class project as well as an experience of personal growth. By using some class content, such as a movie, a play, an essay, a poem or a research article, we have the opportunity to use them as guidelines for the expression of our opinions. Later on, once we get used to doing this with reading material presented to us, we can use this practice for things we might like more in some other way, provided that we weren’t writing about them in the first place. Depending on our view towards this kind of assignments, one can either conform to a bare minimum to avoid a failing score, or we can do something of superb standards by expanding on what we’re writing, and thus, on what we’re saying.

No matter how tedious this might seem at times, I at least pursued writing about the class topics in a profound way; seeking minute details and creating deep connections to the reality I live. I’d say this is most evident in our writings on the movie “The 60’s”. At first, when I first had the movie presented to me, I wasn’t quite connected with it. I at least don’t consider my writing about the first part we saw of the movie/mini series to be particularly special. Afterwards, when the time to write about the third part came, readers can notice how I expanded so greatly on at least one part of that blog entry: out of commenting on the end of “The 60’s” and relating the entire film with the Puerto Rican setting of the 2000’s, I actually explored more than what I anticipated about the Puerto Rican situation.

Considering I have an array of aspirations, ranging from politics, to civil engineering and even cartography, I’d say that they all have, even if to a small extent, a rather significant portion of communication; most notably in the case of politics and civil engineering (at least in my case). Writing a blog is an excellent exercise to polish the communication skills, as well as to polish them for communication itself. How, then, can ideas for the better administration of Puerto Rico, ideas for development and proper use of resources, as well as the act of communicating the geographic setting one has, are to be developed, if I don’t participate in their development by stating them? They simply can’t, or at least can’t be presented, developed and polished; without people interested in having them known. Communicating them widely is often necessary, something that blogs can do very well. Becoming familiar with blog posting may not seem like much, even if it seems it has little use. In a future, maybe really close or not so much, I may find myself writing on several blogs, as well as communicating ideas on other media, for the sake of presenting, developing and polishing them.