This 360 stands out to me as the most academically invested I’ve ever been in a class during my time at Bryn Mawr. This is in part due to the fact that it followed directly after the semester during which I wrote my senior thesis, an incredibly difficult experience that helped me grow in so many ways. I was not very well supported, academically, and this was particularly hard given the gravity and intensity of the project. However, because I got a lot of emotional support from friends and family, I was really able to interrogate the feelings that were coming up and that have always come up for me around school work, feelings of isolation and incompetence that have historically led me to try less hard and put more time into extracurricular activities rather than readings, papers, or assignments. I had learned a while back that I wasn’t very good at school, but through the emotional work I did while writing my thesis, I discovered that that’s just not true, that I have as much...
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I’ve been really anxious about writing these reflections for a while (which is probably why I’ve put them off so late) and I can’t quite figure out why. I think it has to do with the complexity of our learning experience this semester. I know I’m not alone in feeling the intensity of the 360, but I don’t think I’ve reflected on it much on my own before now. Sure, we’ve talked endlessly about our feelings and I even had the prison journal, but neither of those is the same as what I’m trying to do now. I do know we’re all in pretty much the same boat, and I see how most of my classmates have been able to finish their reflections by now. To be honest I think that’s one of the things that’s psyching me out. As comfortable as I have come to be with everyone, and although I feel no judgment whatsoever, I can’t help but feel exactly as I felt months ago when I posted late for Silence...
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