The Last Lecture

Lecture 11
From the moment I read the title of our last JOUR1111 lecture, I knew it was going to be some speech on how this course offers so much and we can go so far in our careers if we really have the motivation. But to be completely honest, there's only so many times we can hear "it opens so many doors" without rolling our eyes. To the person marking my blog: we have been learning all semester to share our opinions and that is what I'm trying to do now. Don't be mad!
The lecture was presented by Steve Molk, who we were told was one of the top four entertainment bloggers in Australia, and his career through blogging. Hearing how this guy went from being an IT professional to an entertainment blogger that interviews people like Will Anderson is great,  but nothing new. Because of the generally good consistency of our previous lectures, I expected the last one to be... more. Don't get me wrong, I know we are here to learn and our lectures aren't purely for entertainment purposes, but this was by far the least enjoyable lecture of the semester. I felt like this was the first lecture where I walked out without having learnt anything new.
Steve talked about how important what we choose to publish is right now, because it's helping to build our brand for the future. He talked about blogging, the easiness that comes with new media, how the internet is killing magazines and how important it is to write freely now before we have guidelines. We've heard it week after week, it has been completely drilled into our heads and I just wanted to stand up and say "we get it!" (but unfortunately I'm only opinionated when I'm sitting behind a computer screen).

All in all though, I have to say that JOUR1111 is a fantastic subject to take. I know a few people reading this will think I'm just sucking up to the marker, but I genuinely enjoyed the course. So thank you, Bruce, for making my first semester of uni much less torturous than I thought it would be.