My First Week's Project Anxiety

Usually, we have weekly or bi-weekly projects that haven't given me quite a panic as this month. It's not even a one time job project. It's more of a consecutive build of something larger.

The project entails me to choose a subject that I care about and could help build my professional identity online. It's hard to pick something I'm passionate about without sounding like I have no idea what I'm talking about. It's even harder when your emotions get involved with the subject and you don't want to seem like you don't have any fact about it. I was racking my brain on something I could write about. I had NO IDEA. I was clueless. The minute I had all the power to create, I had a major brain fart. I'm very good at taking direction especially when I'm given a direction to go. This was so new to me because it could literally be any subject I wanted.

Another thing that concerned me was figuring out a subject that was wide enough to write about daily. I didn't want to restrict myself on not being about to write after I have a few times. This has to be a broad subject but not too broad. If it's too broad, then I don't have a well educated topic. And if it's too narrow, I won't have enough material. That's a dilemma.

And there's other little things that have major impact that I have to include like widgets, clean navigation, proper grammar and other things similar to that.

I can finally say with confidence that I have a subject. I'm a little hesitant to write about it but I think it'll be a great experience overall.

OH, and another thing that terrifies me is that this project is 13% of my grade. But I worry about my grades all the time even when there really shouldn't be.

I'm a natural worrier, I can't help it.
--Kimberly Dinh