It was a very cloudy afternoon when going for this walk, immersing myself in the environment as it felt very still and quiet. Noticing how the sky was, I felt led to the nature around being so quiet. You could feel the slight presence of a peaking sun but felt the cold wind whistle through. The environment felt still, peaceful as though all the stress from the day I felt just vanished while walking. Looking at the grey sky, it made walking around feel more sad without the sun but in a way it was nice as though you had to focus on the sound you heard around you.

Starting my walk up this slight hill, you could feel the damp ground from the rain the night before. I started to look more closely at the ground, as I was looking for worms and if they were crawling around the damn, muddy ground. I seemed not to find very many but as I was getting halfway through my walk and there was a peaking sun that was bringing warmth to the ground and clearing up the dampness of the ground. You could see the birds in the distance ahead hopping around through the muddy and damp paths.

Even on this more quiet and less spectacular day, you feel everything closer and notice the noises around you. From the wind whistling through the trees, or the rustles that the wind brought to the brittle and dead grass and leaves around. Hearing these more clearly, made me feel as though I was noticing the sounds of nature around me. I think sometimes in society, especially nowadays, we forget to really listen to the things around us and appreciate the sounds of nature. As I even got to listen to the birds chirping in the trees, and hearing their wings flutter as they fly around.

The silence of the sky and earth around me is what made this walk enjoyable, more at one with nature and noticing the things around me. As I couldn’t hear the very busy daily life that goes on around all the cars and people but enjoy this silence and peaceful walk in the woods. I felt like I really immersed myself and saw all these pretty things and heard all the sounds that we don’t notice on a daily basis as a society.

With all my classes, I have always would attempt to connect myself to the content and find ways that the material could be importat or valuable to the increase in my knowledge. I had signed up for this class unsure of what it would be about or what I would do as I saw it said digital and wondered is this working with AI or writers working with AI. I never thought it would about my computer or learning different codes because connecting it with a english I just assumed AI but learning it was much more than that has been very interesting to learn. With no knowledge of coding or about computers has made me face challenges through this class and has made me have to adapt to it and be able to learn new skills. It has created a new perspective on computers, coding, or the hsitory fo books and computers and immersed me in something I lacked knowledge on.

Things I had Trouble With

Git Bash

• I had trouble in the beginning with downloading git bash and other apps that were associated with the journals but with the assistance I was able to download and access git bash. I was nervous to ask for help but writing it down in one of my journals, the professor saw and reached out to me to make a meeting in order for me to get help in downloading those apps. When I finally downloaded the app and I started being able to access amd do everything that others were doing. EVen having trouble with it, I have found it very interesting to learn about the different codes on Git Bash and what they correspond to because through the different topics we’ve discussed I had seen many ways to do things on it.

Files and Folders

• I originally couldn’t create a folder on my own and I think I was doing something wrong at first with typing it in wrong but as soon as we did it in class I followed the professor’s instructions and was able to create a scripts folder. Once I saw how to do it and followed along it was pretty straightforward, I think I just had a hard time doing it on my own with messing it up somehow. It’s cool to know how to do it because I never knew these codes or apps that we use before so it’s been interesting to learn about them. Even creating a file was a bit difficult for me at first because it didn’t have a directory and I didn’t know how to fix it at first but I kept trying to get it. I also did it wrong at first but following instructions in class I learned how to do it and now it has come second nature to do it everyday for class which is weird because I couldn’t remember how to do it for the first few classes doing this. But now that I know I can do it everyday for class out of instinct which is so cool I learned how to do this because I could easily use this for another class that I simply just want to note take on my computer.

Something I Have Learned

Computers

• I also have enjoyed learning about the evolving and create of computers and the system its made of through the book “Broad Band” as its been fascinating and new for me. I have never known the history of computers as it’s not a common thing or topic we learn in school but for this class it’s been interesting to learn and has brought me new knowledge from it. I also want to add how I had no idea that many women were involved with computers, how they worked, or the math involved.

AI

• Even discussing AI with computers or electronics has been an interesting topic because in a lot of my classes it’s connected with as I’ve discussed the pros and cons of it as well. I’ve never read an article about it but reading the articles about kind of shown a little more light on the dangers of it all and how it can be very bias because of the company who owns it or is associated with it. In some of my classes we’ve discussed how it can be useful in aspects of grammar or spelling check but in class we discussed with Thoreau how it can make it more bland or flat with the tone and diminish meaning. Now considering both aspects I can see the help it can have but can see it could take away the creativity or originality you had in your writing.

Transcribing and TEI

• Learning about transcribing and TEI was something totally new for me and something I had never experienced or really know much about it. It gained me new skills and knowledge on the importance and care that goes into decoding older works, as well as the significance that technology can have such as Douglass Day that brought many people together to transcbribes many works.

Overall, this course this far as taught me and introduced me to many different ideas, history of things, and new skills that I now have the abiltiy to use in the future. It also has shown the relationship between technology and literature, and the impact it has made or improvements it has created.