This week has been fairly productive in terms of getting on top of my readings for this class. I have been able to set aside time to smash out chapter 3 of Ian Bogost’s dissection of how the world works. I really feel I have been able to get a better grasp onto what I am learning in this course, which should be evidenced by other blog posts I’ve completed this week, detailing my thoughts towards these concepts. Honestly, it has been challenging to get to his point of realisation. The concepts in this class question what we have learnt for so long in our life and it’s been difficult to grasp and see the potential of how these things can benefit my studies and media practises in life.

I’ve really enjoyed completing blog entries this week also. I have found it to be a great way to analyse some of my thoughts in a more concise way that gets them out of the tangled mess that my brain often becomes. I have found the informal nature of the blog to be really satisfying. There are no specific guidelines to how this blog should be structured, and unlike a formal essay, there is no mark. This fact is relieving because I find it easier to travel through my pattern of thinking in more complex ways when I’m not so concerned about specific ways of structuring what I am saying. In a sense I reach a semi-flow state within these blogs posts, allowing me to pour out my ideas without much resistance.

So far this week has been a good start to the habits that have been gradually forming over the past month.