Hello class,History for me has always been super hard in that it's hard to remember dates and specific historicperiod courses. This class has allowed me to have an open opinion on the history we read on$.$ Not only werewe able to understand it more as we knew we had to respond to a series of follow up questions. The learningoutcomes suggested we need to think outside of the box. To broaden our scope of fact and opinion and tothing of the why things mightve happened the way they did. The first couple of Barakas were rough for me$.$ Ikept getting ones and I thought I was putting my best foot forward. Yet that was good, as this way I keptwanting to write more, dive deeper into the questions and all in all I was able to get my first $3!$ The ideabehind it all was to get out my real authentic self$-$down in writing yet still with the relevance to the prompt. Ienjoyed doing this as i dont think I had ever done such style of writing in a while. And it pushed me to stepout and write from a different realer perspective. Instead of a cut up$,$ boring repetition of words. I wouldbelieve these courses objectives to have rounded out the writer in me$.$ I find it a more enjoyable task, asbefore this course it was more of a chore. And I would hit walls constantly. I think the flow is what I gainedfrom this course as well. To write then edit. Thank you, this has been one of my favorite classes this semester.Was a lot harder than I had heard about from previous students. Theres no way we did $45$ of these however itdoes indeed feel that way. This course has been extremely helpful especially for typing aspect of things. Ourgrades were $1-3$ which I thought was a cool grading system. Although I really wish I was able to get more $3$sthe scale of it$.$ I hope Im good to go with an A$,$ even with only earning one three all semester. One thing I wishI knew about sooner, and I wouldve If I read the syllabus that first week as directed. Was that the Barakaswere able to be redone. I missed my very first one. And recently, missed one and had no idea. Just goes toshow hoe hectic ones schedule can get that one simply forgets willy nilly.One thing this course truly allowed me to do was to quit the perfect act and get to work. I am humanand I think the writings Ive been tasked to complete have been very straightforward writings. Making fir a lotof bland papers. This course has allowed me to investigate assignments from a different perspective. To getinto things from all sorts of different angles and perspectives. The stepping into the shoes of those we readabout in the set time period, would be how I go through some social interactions now. Being I get intomisunderstandings I try to put myself in the shoes of others. To understand what they are feeling. A clearanceof learning how to continue to be myself and be more real overall. Hopefully overall has made me into a moreinteresting person as that is one objective the curse objectives intended on doing.Reading through my responses, I was able to see how much actual writing I would out into eachquestion. I think that biggest area where I struggled is I would go off on a tangent when answering thequestions. Yet I dont see that as a fault but more of getting into the depth of the questions. Which issomething I intended on doing in my writing to get the full credit. Which is cool for me to even come up with aplan in order to get a better outcome which is strange of me to ever do such an academic weapon activity.One thing I found as a challenge would be finding the peak balance of the writing length and content thatstood out to me$.$The week I turned in an incomplete was week eight. Where I had issues with a video, we had towatch.so I left the final answer unanswered. Im sure it was just a minor connectivity issue and thats whatmay have caused me to not have access to it$.$ But either way one fault on my part is not having started theassignment earlier, as if I had completed it before midnight, I may have been in the better headspace to havetried again or refreshed the page in order to be able to answer the question. However, Im sure I just wantedto get started on another assignment so I let it be at the drop of the pin.One assignment that was particularly interesting to me was early on in week fours Barka, it was thatone should go visit a museum and completely encapsulate into the whole experience. I went last weekend tothe air and space museum. One thing I found to be specifically cool about my experience in visiting a museumwas that it had history on every wall. You had to read, picture yourself there. They had activities where youwould put yourself in the shoes of a detective or a say and see how to catch the suspect. It allowed you to fullyget into it without very much effort. Thats one thing about this course that I enjoyed was that although therewas a lot of work done for this course. It was long discussion posts. Yet once I locked in$,$ I actually enjoyedgoing through the process. It was the experience that Professor KGB made for the students. It was a sort oflinkage with questions to different areas of the course. It was made to be able to cover a lot of variety andkeep us thinking and expanding as writers as well. This has been a lot of practice with the barakas with mygrammar as I am now noticing I type it out correctly the first it me around!The recording I would watch only if they were present in the discussion post for that week. I would alsowatch the videos sent through email as id assume it would help with the Baraka that given week. But no Iwould not go back to investigate the recordings as if I didnt feel it would be helpful. However, I think its agreat tool to have and Im glad it was there at my disposal if need be$.$ I thought about this course in mostweeks of the semester, a;though taking six courses I was also blurred with other work needing ot be doneevery week on a set day too. Thats one thing I loved and hated about the due date. As all my other sceduedwork, labs and papers would be due Tuesdays and Thursdays the work I had for this class would be the lastthing I did as my other work needed more priority with its due date. The bad thing would be having to get allthe work done even if it would be late. I felt i could get away with my work from pulling an all nightery tofinish the work due, instead of having better time management skills. And had i given myself more time to doit better, instead of having a zombie tired brain do it and inevitability get a $1$ or even a $0.$ Although that notbeing the best grade, I wanted a better one than a one. I tried again and I failed again and slowly I did infactmanage my time ore effect, as I knew this was going to be due, I gave Wednesday as the day to complete itbut I would start it on Monday. So that if I ended up drowning in work, I would still be able to get it done as Itwould already be half done from Mondays go at it$.$ I engaged all the sources assigned in this course. I did thisbecause I wanted to get as much information as possible to write as much as I possibly could to have thepaper com out as perfect as possible. But slowly I learned to let go of the perfection. And focus more on thematerial and it being read. I rarely talked about this course to anyone. Unless it was me complaining abouthow long they were or even just me complaining to myself with being so long and sometimes a hard processto follow. I would rarely look over friends responses unless it was for the weeks requirement to look it over. Iprobably wouldve bit school had me so busy I didnt really think of doing more unwritten, as I do feel I alreadytried hard even with a lot on my plate this semester.Dr$.$ KBGs course structure of this history course is somewhat unusual at UMES. I found it to beinteractive at first. Then I began to do them as realized just how long and much work it woud require of me$.$Then as more time went on and I got the swing of things. I was able to now enjoy the process sd I knowcompleting it will not only raise my grade. But I knew it was helping me in a few areas as a student overall. Sojumping to present datil is a long process to do but its the work you put in now that you will se the results oflater, through other forms of work. I dont think they were unusual I would think maybe in that being so longthey wouldnt be discussion posts but also there being about a few topics and approaches$/$ it was a veryinteractive curriculum despite it being an online course. I felt it being very inviting to attend the classes.