Magazine Reflection

What did you learn?

Throughout this long lasting humanities project I had learned so much not only about my own writing, but making someone's writing better. We had learned everything from structure, punctuation, grammar, transitioning, and even your layout. For me, I feel that I learned a lot based on laying out my writing and how placing a paragraph or even the sub-headline can be so important. What I also learned that didn't have so much to do with my writing, was my internship itself. As I mention in my Photo Essay, I discuss how much responsibility it takes to become involved in the real world as an employee. Being at my internship San Diego Model Management, I think that I have become a much more reliable and outgoing person. It's made me realize the importance in my future and has even helped me decide on my future career path. Many students at HTHMA find their internship to be boring and almost worthless; but most student had also said they STRONGLY recommend an internship just for the experience. 

How did you learn it?

For me, I think that by just personally experiencing everything and being hands on with all the hard work was the easiest way for me to accomplish the learning. Being involved with different writing and looking at all the different views (i.e different magazines, different students writing) is truly the best way to improve your work. Most people tend to look at a really good piece of writing so they can take examples from that and put it into their own work, but I think taking a bad example can also be very helpful. Because that writing is a bad example, you can look at it, compare it, and you now know what not to put into your writing. This was a process for me that I fell helped me a lot. As far as how I learned to be more responsible for myself and becoming more outgoing, that all came from the internship experience. Some might believe otherwise and say their internship made no impact in themselves, but it certainly did if you didn't enjoy your internship because you then know thats not a path you want to take.

Why is this important?

This is all so important to me because it teaches us the benefits and struggles we get not only throughout our high school humanities class, but it gives us the chance to look ahead outside of high school, outside of college, and beyond. It's not just one subject we're learning. We combined the real world of work to our classroom work which I feel is truly the best most creative aspect of learning.