research log 4: reflecting on your humcore journey
Tanaka, Tatsuya. 20 June. 2023.
Tanaka, Tatsuya. 19 Feb. 2024.
As I finalize my research paper, I've learned to appreciate all the resources that have been made available to my discourse. I admit that often I find myself looking for ways to solve my problems on my own, and let the stress and anxiety consume me. Yet, during this research process, I've allowed myself to seek help and advice from those around me to not only better my paper, but also my skills as a writer. My advice to future students is to explore all the many resources that Humanities Core offers, and allow yourself to seek help when needed.
As the picture on the left shows, you reap what you sow and for the case of Humanities Core, if you're able to utilize all the online databases and the resources offered at the UCI libraries, as well as seek advice from not only professors but your own peers, you will be able to construct well-organized and nuanced paper.
In this quarter, we learned that there are many approaches and insights into worldbuilding from Prof. Fan, Prof. Ruberg, and Prof. Betancourt. In connection to the worldbuilding theme of this year, I have learned that you can conduct various readings and ways to conduct your scholarly research whether that be revisiting history like Prof. Betancourt did with Byzantine or looking into things from a queer perspective like Prof. Ruberg did. However, there is no one way of researching that is better than another. Paradoxically, the same can be said about racing someone. In some cases, a certain style can indeed "outrun" another but to be in a position to be racing against another winner is a win within itself. As a writer, everyone is racing to the finish line and submit their papers and while for some it might take longer, at the end of the day, everyone crosses the finish line. In addition, everyone has their own technique of writing their papers as one does run a race, but again, it all gets done one way or another.
Tanaka, Tatsuya. 26 Oct. 2023.
Tanaka, Tatsuya. 9 Oct. 2023.
Atlas, I have reached the end of my Humanities Core journey.I have grown and learned about the process of worldbuilding and what it means to be a worldbuilder myself as I created my own story and world. As I admit once again, I often was confused what the term worldbuilding was this year as I learned that worldbuilding was creating a world, but also remimagining a known-world is also known as worldbuilding. To my own understanding, worldbuilding is the process in which you define the world around you or how you construct a new world from either what is known or from the unknown. There are no boundaries when it comes to worldbuilding, and yet there are many limitations as no one can claim precisely what worldbuilding is. Taking it back to the beginning of the year, I wrote that a worldbuilder is never done building and to that point, I most definitely still agree. While I have spent this year learning how to better my skills as a writer, a researcher, and a thinker, I am not done learning and constructing. I don't think I'll ever be done as times change and I change. I also wrote that I will take all the materials given to me and use it on my own accord in which I have. For my last paper in humanities core, I used the resources provided by humancore and used it to talk about my own self-selected primary source. In retrospect, I've learned to figure out what ways of being a scholar works best for me , and what doesn't but I've also learned to try things out of my comfort zone as an untouched story can be the best thing to happen to you. The only thing constant in our world is change, and worldbuilding allows for an ever changing society to occur. In the beginning of my journey, in the very first page I made, I was sleeping, yet in this last page of mine, I have woken up and started experiencing the world (whatever that could be).