Since I added this class late, I missed the first session. Nevertheless, I would like to express my hopes and fears for the course. When my advisor and I were looking for something to satisfy an upper level english for my Humanities concentration, we were stumped. We met multiple times, and emailed back and forth constantly trying to find something that I would be interested in, and that would fit into my busy schedule. We didn’t know what Digital Humanities meant, but she said it was fairly new. She also said that Professor Harbin was very nice and one of her other advisees had her and loved her. So now I knew that there was a great professor, but no one that I asked knew what the course was about. However, I like to take risks into the unknown because you never know what’ll come of it, so I decided to add the course. So far I really like it. I was afraid to take this course because although our generation is the first to really grow up with advanced technology, I am not computer savvy whatsoever. I quickly realized though that this class was not about me sitting behind a computer. I’ve gotten to experience things that I probably never would have outside of this course, and they’re really cool. I honestly probably wouldn’t have given AR a chance, so I’m happy that I did by taking this course. Moving forward, I want to learn about even more things that I have never heard of. I may not be good at it, but I’m willing to give it a try. I’m very excited to see what this class has in store!
Megan Bender