week 15 - YES,, finally the last blog…
793 words by hangtnguyen
Wow.. My last blog and reflections. Now that I look back on it I don’t regret taking this class. If our core curriculum did not require us to take this theology class I would not have learned all these new interesting things that I know now. I usually run away from things when I find out they’re going to be challenging, but I am glad I didn’t this time. I usually take the easy way out, but this course has taught me many things. First I would like to say that my knowledge of biblical studies were very minimum before I took this course. I have to be quite honest I did not start reading the assignments till half way through the semester. That is when I found out that learning biblical studies was not as bad as I thought. Some of the stories we read were very shocking and interesting. I kind of regret not reading all the stories in the beginning because I knew it would have played a big role on our midterm and the final, but knowing the way I am I always learn the hard way. I also learned to work with others in a better manner than before. I believe doing the bible mysteries help me boost my confident when I am presenting in front of the class. Doing all these assignments may seem to be boring and useless to some students but a teacher would not assign it if they didn’t benefit you in some way right? Well of course doing these blogs helped me out tremendously. I never thought I would have been able to type a thousand words weekly. I used to have a hard time writing a five hundred word paper, but after completing this class I know I am capable of doing this now.
What is the best part of this class? I would say the best part is learning about bible. I thought a lot of the things Dr. Homan taught us in class were very interesting. There were couple of things I found some of the lectures to be a bit boring but all in all I thought the class was great. I also enjoyed doing my mini project. It reminded me so much of grade school. I also felt good trying to be more involved in the Asian Community, and trying to have my culture be a party of something. The worst part I would say would probably be the midterm and the final. Well I might have to also say doing these blogs was kind of a pain in the butt too. I regret pushing doing these blogs every week in this semester. I did not realize how much of work must be put into all this. I was caught up with all my other school work so I postponed doing the blogs for couple of weeks. For future reference for anyone who is planning to take this class, DO NOT EVER wait last minute to do your blogs. I advise you to always have them done when they are assigned. You people have to trust me with this one, because it is no fun catching up. One thing I wished Dr. Homan would have done is make a due date on the blogs weekly. Okay he did have a due date but it wasn’t a strict and enforced date. That is why people are having such a hard time doing all their blogs at once. I just want to warn those people because I don’t want them to go through what I am going through. Since I did not catch up on all my readings from the start I did not have much knowledge of all the information when it came to the tests. Well I think this course should only be part of the core curriculum if it pertains to your major. I believe in that this class has taught me to work with others and being a pre-pharmacy major, working with people is a major factor. I believe everything we do in life benefits us in all sorts of ways even if you think it doesn’t pertain to anything. I believe everyone is super glad that they have reached to this point. I also want to state that all things are possible if you put your mind to it! Never doubt yourself when a challenge comes around. Always know all things are possible when you put effort into it. In conclusion my biblical journey in this course has been a great one, and I do hope that everyone else has learned something from this class like I did.