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The AI TED talk particularly set a strong impression on me. I'm not overly familiar with AI, and putting it up against real poets really piqued my interest and got me true and proper interested in the course. The Twine work was the most difficult (which in the interest of transparency, I never completed) as it was a particularly open-ended prompt, where I tend to do much worse. at the start of the semester, I would have said that text and code are completely separate, two circles, rather than a Venn diagram. now, I would say that those edges have blurred considerably, showing that there's a unique space between code and text, where there's an expression of ideas, using code as a medium, and there's very functional text.I don't have any particular questions from the course, and I most likely won't do extra work to find poems or poetry in my spare time, but I certainly have a new appreciation for poetry and what it can do.
In terms of class participation, I certainly did mybest. I was quite engaged with the course material, although I very likely was not one of the more consistenct in-class contributors. In discord I was... somewhat less present. The discord server didn't particularly feel.... useful? While its certainly a unique way to have discussions,and much more likely to get sustained back-and-forth discussion from students, it feld a bit new for this particular course, and there are certainly some refinements to be made to make it a more direct and present portion of the course. I did approximately half of the readigs, primarily in the beginning of the semester. Personal scheduling made it harder to continue doing readings, and additionally the fact that the texts were shown in class and there was time allowed for analysis in class before/during discussions was crucial to my understanding of multiple pieces discussed. Overall, I believe myself to be quite engaged with the work overall, and am very glad to have taken it.I took this course with the projection that it was the least """squishy""" of my minor-required courses, and while that turned out not to be true, I have no complaints about that whatsoever, and in fact see this as a positive, and a good way to get more hard science/math people such as myself into a discussion with depth and ambiguity.