Epics of India - Vinay Kalvacherla

I think, looking back, that I have made good progress so far and that I am happy with my level of learning and growth. I have a pretty set weekly routine as far as finishing the assignments goes, and I really enjoy the storytelling option the best of all of them. However, I think my grade points-wise is lower than I want it to be because I had to skip a few assignments in the second week to take the MCAT and just haven't gotten around to doing enough extra credit to make up for it yet. I did do some of growth-mindset extra credit last week, though, and really enjoyed it, so I am planning to do more of those this week to help me. Looking forward, I think I want to be more proactive on finishing the blog comments and project comments so that I have more time for the extra credit. A meme depicting Shia LeBeouf yelling "just do it," borrowed from one of his YouTube videos. Source.

I think the comments that I am receiving from other people in the class are rather constructive, and I appreciate the "human" aspect of these comments. Realizing that it may be difficult to connect with others in the class, since this is an online class, I like that I get to see some new comments each week on my introduction. I think the quality of feedback that I have been giving out has also steadily gotten better as I have gone through the class. Reading other peoples' work and giving them feedback helps me understand areas where I can improve my own writing, and realizing what kind of feedback I would like for myself helps me improve the feedback-writing process process. As for blog comments, as I mentioned before, I am quite happy with receiving new blog comments each week, and like that I get to meet new people that way. To make feedback assignments more useful to me and for others in the future, I think I would try spending more time on each piece that I am offerin...

I think that, overall, the reading and writing assignments have been working very well for me, so far. I got the experiences that I had desired to get out the class through the reading, and have thoroughly enjoyed both reading the Mahabharatha and Ramayana so far and also writing stories about them. I am quite happy with the state of my class project, as well, and take pride in having taken inspiration from a relatively minor aspect of the Ramayana. My biggest achievement for my writing in this class is the development of my ability to craft characters in fiction writing. It has been several years since I wrote any kind of fiction for schoolwork prior to this class, and I am thankful to have the opportunity to have grown and learned to write better fiction through this class. A picture depicting Varaha (an avatar of Vishnu as a boar) carrying Earth on his tusks to protect her from a demon.  Source. My favorite picture that I have used for stories thus far is the one above....