Aah!

It's only the second week of a new semester and I'm already crushed under the amount of reading that I have been assigned. My textbooks all read like a medical journal. (I've never even read a medical journal, but I assume it is a devastating process...)

However, the book for this class is relaxing to read. Assuming I don't sit down and attempt to read the whole chapter at once, it's even moderately enjoyable. I think this is because the material applies directly to me, as opposed to reading chapters about anatomy and ancient literature.

It's nice to know that everything I'm reading I can apply and observe in my day to day life. It makes sense to me now that Communications is a required course for most degrees. Even if you're not a people-person, it's great to know how people work.

I started to find it ironic that even though this course is all about clear communication, we're all engaging in paradoxical form of it. The idea of having a class online seems to contradict every idea of student and teacher relationships I've ever heard of. We may be able to have discussions that mimic those we'd have in person, but to me it feels like we're using the wrong medium of communication regardless.