Fan Edits For A Grade

My knowledge of Microsoft Word is more extensive than it needs to be. During my Freshman year, I took a technology foundations class. The assignments ranged from making Power Points to programming. I can remember being a sort of teacher’s pet in this class. The teacher often showed my work to the class as an example of how to do it right and let me get away with a lot of things. This led to me taking a lot of liberties with assignments. A lot of liberties.

While searching through my Google Drive this past week, I came across a folder that hadn’t been updated since 2018. Inside was every assignment I’d completed from this class. I thought I would share them because not only are some of them fairly adequate, most of them are hilarious. This is because I was quite the fangirl Freshman year and these assignments truly reflect what I was going through.

Some assignments that I did normally were actually pretty good:

    

Mother’s Day card

Calendar

 

Adding text with pictures

           

Easter Cards                                                                 Valentines Day Cards

And then, other assignments were… creative, to say the least:

          Filled Empty Space                                    Make a Face Using Only Shapes

 Bookmarks                                                   Subway Art

                Collage                                                          Edited Photos

My teacher let me edit pictures of Brendon Urie and Dan Howell! And I had the best grade in the class!

We also did quite a few presentations, which included videos projects like:

                                                   Prezi Presentation About Myself

(You can view it here)

But also projects like:

                                                   Scene from Powtoon Presentation

                                                  Scene from Powtoon Presentation about a fake movie

(You can watch it here)

Up until more recently, I’d been reluctant to talk about any of my past phases. I thought they were embarrassing and that if I just ignored them, then it would be like they’d never even existed. But now, I really couldn’t care less about what I did in the past.

I’ve been through many “embarrassing” phases, but at the end of the day, it’s what got me to who I am today. I look back on Freshman year now and think how much fun I had making these. Freshman year Addison was just having a good time and I shouldn’t be embarrassed about it (no matter how many pictures I edited of Thomas Sanders as pieces of artwork).

In conclusion, owning your past, especially the embarrassing bits, is way easier than trying to ignore it. Your past is what made you who you are today. And if you’re lucky, then you may even be able to get a laugh out of it like I did.