My Final Reflection

This class has taught me a lot, both about myself but also about heuristics. I took this class last fall and I ended up failing due to my own mistakes. That failiure made me realize a lot of things. For so long I have held myself to a certain standard when it came to school, and I have placed my own self worth on how I was doing academically. When I failed this class my self worth took a sharp turn downwards and I began to believe the worst of myself. Failing has taken up many hours in therapy and a important part of getting better was retaking this class and not giving myself the option to fail again. I think I can say that I did that, which is why this is a bittersweet end to the summer. I have absolutely enjoyed the challenge that this class has allowed me to have this summer. I was able to learn how to juggle and incredibly busy schedule with school work for this class and another and for the first time I am genuinely proud of the work I have done in a class. As for the content of the class, I have made so many more discoveries after retaking this class. I have learned so much about websites and how they should run. It was incredibly interesting to learn how our brains physically work to look a site and it information. This class has allowed me to become a better developer as well as a better student. While doing this last assignment I have was able to have a very in depth conversation with a friend of mine of how pyschologically we look at websites and how that impacts the way we consume their information. I was able to tell them the things that I learned in this class and actually know that I was talking about something that was useful.