Assignment #2 stressful first week of classes- How I feel about CT 101.

Assignment #2 stressful first week of School- How I feel about CT 101.

what does picking classes feel like when you finished all the major classes and do not know what to enroll in.

Having over 120 college credits can be exciting but stressful when selecting more classes to complete a 150 CR so I can qualify for the CPA exam since it’s required by the NYS CPA Examination Board. Once my major requirements, Liberal arts, and college options were complete, I was lost in what classes I should be enrolled in my final semester.

thinking about CT 101 before my first class
thinking about CT 101 before my first class

Before attending the first day of class, I was super stressed, thinking about what this class could be. It was a weird name, never heard about it before, and most importantly, it was recommended by a friend who actually got a D grade in this class.

feeling stupid for taking advice from someone who actually failed this class

The first week of the semester, I was enrolled for 18 Cr, but I was waiting to attend the first day of all classes to decide what course I should drop and what to keep. Attending CT 101 first online class was the best thing I had in my first week of school. The Professor is super friendly, calm, and professional. He went over what we will be doing through the semester class, what he expects from students, and the types of assignments we will be doing throughout the semester.

Realizing class is easy, and the Professor is excellent.

I came to learn that CT 101 is all about expressing myself, feeling, and expression through Gifs. unlike my other classes, It is a class that encourages students to use the internet Gifs to express their feeling through writing. It might sound boring, but this is the best and easiest class at York College.

finding out CT 101 is all about storytelling using gifs My first assessment for this class was to write about what makes me happy on the internet, using Gifs to express my love for YouTube. YouTube had made my life super easy and fun as well as it saved me hundreds of dollars for so much stuff I learned to fix at home without spending money on technicians.

Completing my first CT 101 Assignment

For this week’s assignment, I used Giphy and Imgur, and I can tell you that Giphy is 100% better than Imgur. It was super easy to use and navigate through their website, it gets you a better result, and most importantly, I learned something that’s I’ve always wanted to learn, turning funny videos clips into gifs.

how I feel about Imgur

So how I feel about Ct 101 compare to my other classes. Of course, each class has it uniqueness and you can’t really compare one to another. However, we can rate each class based on  its activities, material, and information students gets as a whole. I can tell you that the most fun class is CT 101 so far, I can proudly say that the lecture is super fun and engaging unlike my other class that has 4 hours of boring lectures. I was able to learn about how to use the internet, how to merge it with story telling and how to use gifs and imgur to express your feelings.

to conclude my post, let me share with you some history about Gif. According to Wikipedia, gif stands for graphic Interchange Format, which was officially released in June 1987. the idea behind gif was to solve the compuserve problems which is How to make a computre display an image while also saving memory. according to A Brief History of the GIF, From Early Internet Innovation to Ubiquitous Relic.” Wilhite was able to find a way to share colored image file without taking to much space using a compression algorithm which he called Graphic interchange format (GIF).

Many lack the knowledge that Gif been here for a long time and that’s because it did not get so popular until we started using them in the social media platform like Facebook, twitter, and Instagram. however, according The History of Gifs , “Gifs have flashed across many a webpage, flickered within millions of MySpace profiles and glittered among innumerable Tumblrs.”

 

 

3 thoughts on “Assignment #2 stressful first week of classes- How I feel about CT 101.”

  1. Good work!
    Nice assortment of GIFs selected and a really fun flowing narrative!
    Lets be sure to always add hyperlinks and share a bit of context to them. Also, be sure to double check the assignment details to make sure that you are covering all aspects of the assignment. I don’t think that you mentioned the essays about GIF history that I included :))) those have a lot of context to where GIFs came from, lets dig into those too!

    Ohhh what friend got a D in this class? If they got that grade they must have missed more than half of the assignments and the class times… 🙁 – I think I like the Giphy tool better too 🙂 – much more to come in our class in terms of creative tools, digital art and storytelling!

  2. Love it! You’re choice in GIFs were spot on! Made me rethink some of mine… in particular to add more images with the right captions inside them. I clicked your excited link, also on the money! I really appreciated the comparison and I agree Giphy is a bit more user friendly. I wonder if that will shift.

    Good luck with the semester (18 credits eesh!) — keep kickin butt 🙂

    -Jay

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