Self Evaluation

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I felt that because there were a lot of people in the class that were more knowledgable in Gender studies than I was, I found myself wide-eyed and agap with the kind of analysis that they were coming up with. In the beginning, I felt like I wasn't talking as much as I normally do because I wasn't confident in myself, but soon I just started to say whatever I felt I could contribute. Whether it was a comment that related things to my own experience with what we were talking about, or a question that I had no intenstion in answering myself but maybe someone else might be able to think of something and give any sort of insight along the way to the answer, I tried to say whatever I could.

I think in this experience, I've learned to acknowledge the other side of learning that I wasn't used to in the first place. I was very used to keeping conversation and staying on the same plane as most of the other students. I was used to learning things on my own, doing things on my own to find a result. But here, I was really relying on other students to help me grow into a more feminist thinking student.

I took a lot of notes and most of them where questions that arose form the discussion because it was interesting to me how we got from one question to the next. The class as a whole and how our train of thought took us to where we ended up. i found myself thinking of more questions similar to what we came up with in the class before for the next class's readings.

As a writter, I think it was really helpful to do a post every week. It keep me constantly in exercised with putting my thought in order and posting them for everyone to see. Though I'll have to admit, i was more nervous about postings than speaking in class because I felt like the postings online should be more indepth, I think I managed pretty well as far as keeping my posts concise and thoughtful. The open spaces for the web events were actually pretty changing for me because I felt lost since there were not a lot of instructions to writing them. I didn't know if I should be finding a new argument or even having an argument at all. In that since, I think I got a lot of practice with writing just to write and learning through research (I've never done a lot of research before this class). Overall, I think my ways to go about writing/drafting/coming up with ideas expanded more than my actual writing.

I think I did fine in this class. I tried to envolve myself in every discussion as much as I could. As a beginner it was sometime hard to jump into a discussion that was getting really indepth because I wasn't sure if my answers or imput would be useful or not, but I said as much as I could without making myself feel uncomfortable with my elementary knowledge of Gender studies. I did most of the read, not all I admit since I had a lot of reading intensive courses this semester (especially for tuesday/thursdays) and I did all of the written assignments/postings. I really think I learned a lot from this class in creative ways that only this particular class could facilitate.