Response A.

On the occasion that I do not have any questions in my first blog post, I will instead compare
what my life is to what it was. In my post, I had spoken about my classes towering over me and the fact
that I would be in a constant barrage of work. After reaching the time of midterms it seemed as how my
life was and is just about the same as what it used to be but with a change of the majority of work load.
At the start of this semester it seemed as though my primary workload was from Physics with a very
steady, almost unmanageable amount of architectural work. Teachers began to come to the
understanding that students were getting comfortable and began increasing the workload little by little
in some of my classes. This then began the turning point for architecture, as reviews became prominent,
making that class eat up so many hours of time that sleep has been cut to roughly three to six hours a
night, if that. Comparing the beginning of the semester to now, it seems as though at the beginning, the
workload was large but tolerable and now my workload is the weight of the world on my shoulders,
stealing time from all non-school related activities.

Response B.
Looking through the key concepts on page one of the syllabus, I think that when it comes to
strengths, it seems as though critical thinking, curiosity, getting out of my comfort zone, providing and
receiving feedback, making connections, and maybe not a strong intellectual growth and maturity, but
rather the open mindedness to intellectual growth and maturity. I think that these are all strong suits to
me because of the fact that architecture calls upon meta-physical thought, making critical thinking and
use of separate viewpoints some of my specialties. As for my weak points, I believe that I have very little
idea as to my responsibility for my own learning, because of my condensed amount of time that isnt
devoted to work. I also think that my own writing process and revision is something that I not only need
to work on, but also need to learn about hints and tricks that require a shorter amount of time.
Independent inquiries also spark nothing in my head, meaning that I would appreciate an explanation as
well as hints as to how to do this.

Response C.
I think that in my drafts I did not specifically change points or larger scale revisions, but instead I
make smaller revisions or large scale revisions. You don't think that this is a social wrong? What I have
written? She responded with, 'Norman, getting someone's attention and keeping it on a paper is very
difficult, but if you can do it with this type of work, then why should I stop you? Is a small example of a
revision addition, which is dialog, calling interest to the realistic sense of the story, to make the reader
feel as though they were there, listening. It also makes it difficult to look for revisions when my
skimming over the papers keeps me from seeing small, annoying errors like, my english teacher, is
extrodinarily intresting perspective, et cetra. The program I was using did not have a functioning spell
check, nor a word count tool. This makes such small and insignificant errors very prominent in my
papers [although now I have a functioning program]. I also say that this is just out of lack of time, so it is
obviously my fault for not taking the time to check over the paper with a fine toothed comb.

Response D.
e-Portfolio #5
1. I think that Lauren Gruber did a fantastic job writing her final draft. She had an opening that
gave me personally bliss, which created a happy tone and emotion which slowly transitioned to a
staircase of paragraphs leading to her journey to that happy feeling about music that she experienced.
2. The modes used seem to be linguistic, because of her beautifully written opening, visual,
because of her use of detail when it came down to her explanation of her experiences with music and
how she remembered it. I find it odd in an essay about music, she doesnt help give a mode of aural, she
only gives a description of the stereotypical examples of the music.
3. I think that this fits under the subgenres of music, reasoning and along the lines of passion,
because those themes are deliberately explained throughout the pages.
4. I think Laurens paper is extraordinarily successful! She invokes feelings, gives reasoning, gives
examples of her development, in detail, and she talks as though she is talking to you, not at you, and
that type of work is highly respected in my eyes. Talk to me as I am, not as though I am just something.
I think and hope she got the grade she deserved, which is along the lines of top tier work.

Response E.
It is a little unsettling to say but when looking at the e-Portfolio grade scale I believe that my
work is trying to conform to a 79-70 average. Almost everything I do is average. I presume that I will
have just about all the work, if not all, I will try and do things to the best of my abilities but do not seem
to be striving for 100-90 work. This goes to a lot of things that fall upon myself, but it also comes to not
only a lack of time, but a lack of time management that prevents me from revising my own work, asking
others to revise my work, finishing all of the assignments on time and properly, and the fact that I have
already had a few mix ups at the beginning of the semester. I am aware that I can resubmit work for the
final, after they had been changed but I am not sure if in my free time I will have the will, not the open
opportunity to try and fix up my work. In the off event that I do have the time or will to do so, I will still
be fixing up my work rather than being able to make it pristine. Top tier work seemed to be a thing in
high school, but in college, making average or above will suffice.