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Probably the most uninteresting thing I wrote during my first semester at Georgetown was a short review of the Green Party's national website (www.GP.org). The assignment was pretty basic, and so the result was fairly bland... a blow by blow critique of the website, based on a set of criteria provided by the professor.

As long as I'm recapping all of my papers, I might as well recap my courses too. So here are my general reactions to the three courses I took last fall.

Intro to CCT
This is the only explicitly required course in the CCT program. At the time, I found the class incredibly frustrating but, looking back, I appreciate it at the very least for bringing all of the new students into one room and building a sense of community and connectedness, as well as a common vocabulary and reading list.

My final paper for my class in "Media and Political Engagement" was called The Baker What? - Examining the Brief Life of the Iraq Study Group Report. I'm noticing that I have a tendency to give my papers sarcastic titles. I'm not sure why. Anyway, here's a quote from the intro, which gives a solid explanation of what the paper does:

For my class on Media & Political Engagement, during the first semester of my masters program, I wrote a very short paper called "The Internet News Effect?," which was an exploration of the effect of online news sources on political cynicism. This was partially a response to the article "The Daily Show Effect" (Baumgartner and Morris, 2006), which attributed cynicism among viewers of The Daily Show to the show itself.