This week was rough. I had a total of 21 assignments across my classes this week and between those, my time in synchronous classes, doctors appointments, and my job, it just was not possible for me to get everything done. This week I was able to do my two audio assignments, listen to the radio show, and watch the videos linked in the weekly page.
I had a lot of fun with my two audio assignments though; both of which allowed me to analyze music in my life. First, I did the Reverse It assignment to rearrange the Dear Evan Hansen soundtrack to create a new ending that I think it needed. Then I compared Britney Spears’s version of “…Baby One More Time” with a darkwave cover of it by Dead on a Sunday to talk about how instrumentation and vocal tone can change the whole emotion and meaning of a song even when it uses the same lyrics. I also tuned into Wednesday night’s edition of DS106 radio for the last two episodes of “Limetown” and wrote my reflection on how impactful little auditory clues can be throughout a story
I’m having a great time with the content of the class, but the sheer volume of the workload is not meshing well with the rest of my classes and schedule. I will literally be working on work for all of my classes for 5+ hours a day including weekends and I’ve got a 15 credit course load. My other classes have honors, writing intensive, and speaking intensive designations and are almost all 300+ level classes and none of them are nearly as heavy on the workload, but the combination of each of them with this class has been incredibly challenging.