English 201 for ... now what?

Although class is officially over, and this post could technically serve as the first on my blog that is nonacademic, I had a few lingering thoughts about English 201 that I wanted to express, even though most people from the class will not be reading them anymore. After listening to other people's comments in the discussion today, I realize that the course was organized in a manner where we moved from more traditional, Romantic writting in the begining of the semester. Writting the first paper and reading more complex, philosophical authors was probably the largest contributer to this factor. The focus, assignments, and discussion gradually progressed to the less traditional as we went from ghostwritting to plaigerism to sampling and remixing. In doing this, our collective view of the modern author was constantly challanged, for just as we became comfortable with a less conventional view of the author, the course moved a step further and we had to revisist the view of the author in a new, even less traditional light. I realize now that this factor kept me engaged and interested in the course throughout the semester. Just when I thought I'd figured out who the modern day author is, my view became skewed and I had to reconceptulalize my ideals.

Overall, I was very suprised with this course and my own enjoyment of it. I came into the semester thinking that I would have to write four or five formal essays and was pleasantly suprised to learn that our focus would be the opposite of this. Learning about new media forms that influence the present author not only gave insight to the course focus as a whole, but also introduced me to new technologies and writting mediums that I can use and still be an author. As I have never been a blogger before, my first experience with it was a learning one. I kind of knew that I would enjoy blogging even before I began it for the class. For this reason, I titled my blog "english 201 for now" with hopes that I would continue blogging after the semester is over, change the title, and make it more personal. With 15 weeks of blogging behind me, i now know that I would like to continue posting my random thoughts on a personal blog. From this point forward then, I will alter my "English 201 for now" blog to,... well I'm not exactly sure. English 201 is done...now what?