Having completed a year at Swinburne prior to this degree I came into my first class thinking I knew exactly what to expect an exactly how university works and how I need to work within it.
Boy was I wrong..

So what was different…
the structure, the content, the people. It was all based on creatively working within media to learn the theory behind it rather than learning the theory first to then know how to produce it. Although it is still early days, it seems to me that I have been very wrong in my assumptions about the way this degree is taught.

I learned in my first tutorial that as part of the course it is a necessary requirement to make weekly blog posts. Before starting here I had never even considered the possibility of beginning one. The reason being that I am resistant of sharing personal things on the internet such as my artworks and music. This has been drilled into me all through my high school years. ‘What you put on the internet stays forever.’ FOREVER! That’s a long time! What if other people don’t like it? What if I don’t like it? But what I have come to realise is that these posts are all creative outputs of myself and these outputs make up who I am. Putting them all together in one place is the best way of preserving and collecting a part of my identity.

Another reason for being reluctant toward blogging is because I thought that making a blog requires you to have a somewhat clear idea of your identity. So this blog post originally was frightening, but having been to my first lecture and tutorial I was able to become familiar with how it all works. I was able to make my first few blog posts and I realised that I was looking at it all wrong.

Now I see this blog as an exciting and creative way to explore my identity. I am able to discover what creative media outlets work for me. Whether its photography, music, written word, film or voice recordings I am able to explore these outlets and find what works for me.

 I need to learn to change the way I approach my work and think more creatively in the way I express myself rather than following a straight planned structure of what others expect from me. This is both exciting and scary at the same time.

When it comes to creative work it isn’t based on how much work you put in, how many papers you read or how many hours you spent doing it. It is based on the way you express the things you have learnt. There is no structure, there is no right or wrong.

What will be most challenging is training myself out of my old learning habits and allowing myself how to learn in a more creative way.