1. As I discovered during the repurposing assignment and discussed in my "Why I Write" essay, I am plagued by a particularly nasty combination of over-complication and tunnel vision. I am immensely susceptible to rabbit holes. And when I become lost in thought, I suddenly lose perspective.

2. But I don’t shy away from challenges. Deconstructing Baudrillard was a challenge. Learning a new infographic tool was a (very different sort of) challenge. Pulling apart the reasons I write was a challenge. At the very least, I’m unafraid to crash and burn.

3. Indeed, I will crash and burn, just as I will bandage my wounds and come away stronger (tougher). My successes are defined in resiliency, in my eagerness to fix holes in logic and elaborate underdeveloped thoughts.

4. I thought I had understood what it means to edit a paper—you know, just fix some finicky diction and make sure the syntax isn’t too repetitive. I was wrong in every way. This course has rekindled my belief in the importance of constant editing—a paper is never really “done,” so much as temporarily turned in—and refined my own editing skills. I’m better able to take a step back from my work, and consider it more critically.