This is the end!

Welcome to my final blog. This past week has been a little crazy with it being the end of the semester, my scooter being stolen on campus (If you took it, I will find you), spring football camp coming up, and trying to sublet my apartment (2 bed, 1 bath, full kitchen, on campus) for the summer (If anyone needs a place to live on campus from May-August contact me alexlavecchia@icloud.com) Please don't mind my elite marketing skills via this blog post. If I get a few bites from this, I may have to take talents into real estate.

Anyway, I'll shift gears from realtor to student..  13 weeks and 12 blogs later this is finally the last hoorah. This was overall a very interesting class, and the layout of it is so unique with the contract system, something that I've never seen before and I found it cool. Coming into the class and signing up for "romantic studies' I assumed we would be reading "Romeo and Juliet" and maybe even dive into a few rom-com movies (which is a guilty pleasure of mine) and boy was I off. 

I remember the first class of the semester where Prof. Beasley-Moore was explaining the book-a-week and contract system and I thought to myself "Maybe I'm a little over my head", given that I'm not an avid reader. Still, I decided to thug it out and challenge myself to see if I could do it. I remember early on in the course, perhaps week 2 when Professor Beasley-Moore went on a tangent in a lecture and was explaining the time change system and how it correlated to the railways back in the day, although this is a pretty random thing for me to takeaway from all of the lectures, and books read in this course, it stuck with me and is honestly my favorite moment from the class.

 This class really tested my time management skills, and being a student-athlete it was often very difficult to make time to read books and write blogs but I made it work (most of the time). The main theme of this course was hard to choose but a few that come to mind are themes such as death, relationships, and coming of age. This course taught me a bit more about myself, by reminding me that I may not be an enthusiastic reader, yet also brushed up my reading skills. I enjoyed writing the blogs and having the freedom to correlate the readings and blog posts to almost anything. 

Thank you all for reading these blogs throughout the semester and I wish everyone taking the exam good luck and everyone a great summer of '24. 

Question: Are you going on vacation this summer? If so then where?


PS: Reach out if you're interested in the apartment;)


Comments

  1. Jon Beasley-Murray9 April 2024 at 07:16

    Who is Prof. Beasley-Moore?! ;)

    Alex, I'm glad you enjoyed the course, and learned a bit more about yourself in the process. And that my little tangents sometimes resonate, too! :)

    Thanks for all your contributions, good luck with the sub-let, and have a great summer!

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