Week 1 Comment on Fred Benitez

Fred writes:

The accelerated 12 month journey through Full Sail is now at the start of month 11. Unbelievable! While the stress level has remained constant, and my delicate handling of my MBP has faded, the butterflies of the start of a new month still live on. With the final touches going into the thesis, the development of the media project and the building of nerves of the presentation, this seems like a month that will test my work ethic and time management. I welcome the challenge with an open mind and a smile on my face, as I have learned over the past 10 months that things will work out.

With the beginning of MAC in March, I also enter the Technology Student Association contest season, the Texas Youth Ultimate Frisbee State championships, and Flatstock Poster Conference at SXSW. The common theme through all of these activities is the importance on team support as the base structure. TSA is a group of 30 students who compete in various technology events such as desktop publishing, film, engineering, architecture, etc. Ultimate Frisbee is a sport played across the nation at the youth level and beyond. Flatstock is a screen printing poster convention held in conjunction with the South by South West music, film and interactive festival.

Overwhelmed? Absolutely. Scared? Absolutely. But am I going to stop because of these things? Absolutely not. As Mr. Bustillos said in the initial Wimba, we did not get here through inertia, onward my friends!

Tanya's Comment:

These past 10 months we have been together, through the thick and thin of it all. Stress has been a huge factor for us all. I have watched you grow and it has been a pleasure to be a part of your learning and to be able to experience things together as a team has been very rewarding.
The next and might I say last few months will prove to be the most interesting and challenging part of the entire year. It all comes down to the media project and the presentation of our thesis. Hang in there and know that we are all in this together. Taking the projects that are assigned one by one and breaking them down to the simplest form to digest each piece will help to bring things together for you. I might sound like I am cheering you on and you would be right. Onward!