Finals on Lit. of Horror, Fantasy and Sci-Fi

I enjoy this class a lot, not only being of what the course was about, but being of the professor teaching it and his ways of teaching. This semester of being apart of this interesting class has helped me better understand the realms of the three specific genres.
Not being a big fan of Horror I definitely learned a lot about the background of the genre and what makes a story fall under the horror genre. It's not very hard to figure out what's horror and what isn't, but I think the strategy of giving us movie and book examples really help me better understand what goes where on the horror chart. I'm still not a big fan of horror, but I do really enjoy those jump scares.
Fantasy was something I was really looking forward to, because I saw on the schedule what we were going to be talking about. Lets just say I'm a huge Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings nerd and when I talk about them, I talk about them. I love the whole fantasy outlook that people have, because you have such a free range of stuff you can create with your mind. Which is why Fantasy was my personal favorite genre to discuss during this course. However, away from Harry Potter and The Hobbit I also learned a lot of different types of fantasy that's out there and how very different they are in what they discuss and characteristics about them.
Sci-Fi was my second favorite topic to discuss because who doesn't like talking about cool future stuff and Star Wars? However, away from that I, as like the rest of the genres, learned a lot about this genre. Besides Star Wars I don't really watch a lot of Sci-Fi movies, unless there of the SyFy channel then I'll watch them. I did learn a lot thought about this specific genre and what different people consider Sci-Fi and how they put their own little twist on certain stuff.
David taught this course very well and I'm very glad I took it and didn't skip past it. I learned a lot about genres I thought I already knew quite a bit about. I also enjoyed David's way of teaching, I discussed it with him and I thought it was such as great and interesting way to teach a class and keep them engaged with what you're teaching.

The Future

When I was younger I wanted to be a veterinarian (as kids normally do), that's it, that's what I wanted to be. I loved animals of all kinds, but tolerated the bugs, amphibians and such so what better thing to do than to help them myself! Great idea huh? Well later on I realized what veterinarians actually did, other that being around animals, loving them and caring for them. The caring part it where I didn't imagine as much, by that I mean I didn't think they had to cut them to see inside or deal with their blood or any kinds of that matter. Being the last one on earth to want to open up a dog regardless of if I'd help them or not I retreated back to the drawing board on what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. Eventually transitioning from middle school to high school I realized that I enjoy taking photos, I loved cameras as well. After shooting some interesting photos with my low quality phone camera I came to a conclusion on what I wanted to do for a life to come. Photography was dead bolted in my mind as a career and there was no stopping it no matter how many people said I should just do it as a hobby because there's no money for it. My senior year of high school I applied to in my opinion the greatest art school ever, Ringling College of Art and Design. After what seemed like forever of waiting, I finally got an acceptance letter. A couple year forward and I am currently a Sophomore at the greatest art school ever.

So my dreams for the future are pretty high taken Ringling has a very high rate of students getting jobs when they graduate. I'm not sure what I want to do specifically for a career, but I know photography will be apart of it. I'm nervous for the near near future of being an almost college graduate. Not only because that means I have to start paying my student loans, but because I know that being a true true adult is near for me. I hope to accomplish a lot in terms of my photography these next couple years of college I have. Ringling will make sure I get some job in the end of my years of being at this school and I'm semi ready for that. Excited, nervous and wanting to cry a bit is how I feel about my future of being a photographer.