Saturday, March 19, 2016
ENGL-3135-001 Class journal blog and graphs: "A Journey through my Journal Journeys"
I found the Life journal to be an entertaining and interesting experience. I've always wanted to have a diary but never had the motivation to do one, so I felt that this was a good approximation to that. At first it was a little difficult to comply with all the anti-rules but, once you start to get the hang of it and let go it was easy to follow the rules and have an enjoyable writing experience. Like I said in class, writing in the journal is extremely similar to drawing for me, because I draw almost every single day and it's a place for reflection, relaxation and self-expression for me, that is what the journal felt to me. It was somewhat relaxing to forget about the external world and only focus on the task at hand which is to write. Since I spent a lot of my time alone, it's not that weird to me to listen to my thoughts and to record them on paper. It's similar to having a one sided conversation with oneself. I never found myself with a reason to stop writing and jump from one topic to the next without caring if the previous topic was unfinished. Overall, the journal entries were overall fun and relaxing to me. The life compass was a unique way to track one's mood throughout the week. I enjoyed drawing in the circle and considered it a challenge to see what I could draw inside or outside it. My mood were fairly consistent throughout the weeks and months and I felt more connected to the mental side of the compass than to any of the others. Concerning the data, overall I wrote 42 journal entries and 29 life compasses. The life compasses totaled for 220 points, 41 of these were from spiritual (S), 65 were from mental (M), 54 were from emotion (E) and 60 from physical (P). My average was 8 for compass number total. Spiritual had the most one's, physical had the most two's and mental had the most three's. I had a total of one five, three sixes, eight sevens, twelve eights and five nines. The most repeated number in each of the life compasses parts was 2. Up next is a graph illustrating the compass total per day written:
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You're one of the few lucky ones that can express themselves in paper. I for sure get stuck easily but like you said, as time pass you just get the hang of it. It was something fun and different that we could all do and I for sure had good results concerning my stress level.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely well written, I feel similarly but with photography instead of drawing. I also found this to be a strange experience, but a liberating one, since we're always so restricted in a lot of classes at the university. This was a nice exploration. Nice line graph, you got decent scores!
ReplyDeleteI'm in agreement with your feelings on the writing/drawing thing. For me its literally writing, just fanfiction or little blurbs about my niece instead of an actual journal. The compasses were a good way to asses our moods, and in some cases physical states which does gives us a window to see if anything abnormal is happening. and to be completely honest I just spent the last five minutes playing with the window of colorful fishes which is right next to the text box.
ReplyDeleteWhat jumps out to me the most is when you say that at the beginning you had a bit of trouble with the anti-rules, but as time went on you got the hang of it and it was easy. I felt exactly the same way when I started my journal. Also, you selected a perfect graph to showcase you life compass scores; it's very neat and organized, I like it.
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