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a) I still cannot make a table, even after I learned to control-click my wooden planks. I did not know how to combine them into a final item, so I ended up throwing random blocks in front of my character by accident. 

b) My experience was an improvment from last class mainly thanks to outside forces. I was also able to stay alive for about an hour, though only because the survival game mode was reset in such a way so that there were no longer any zombies. I still nearly died of hunger because I only had an apple and mushrooms, but then I chickened out and decided to switch to creative mode. 

c) I just realized that creative games in general appeal more to me because I don't like the idea of always having to defend myself from monsters and face the risk of dying when I escape from reality into fantasy. That's why I preferred games like Animal Crossing over action stuff like the Legend of Zelda (though I used to love Zelda) or shooter games. And here in Minecraft, it's the same. I think I'll stick to building a garden paradise from scratch in Minecraft from now on. It'll be my new big project, and tough in its own way, since professor Lesnick told me that it's easier to destroy than to create (according to our human history). This notion was so true for me, because I accidentally destroyed blocks when I was trying to plant a flower on a given square. Even when I double-press the mouse, because I have a mac, it's hard to tell whether or not I'm left-clicking (destroying) or right-clicking (planting).

d) What's up with that mincraft wiki? I tried to look up the helpful hints to creative mode, yet the section on that was incomplete while the section on survial was filled to the brim with various survival tips. Is it because nobody does creative mode these days, but survival instead? Or has the wiki gone under? Have the mods been lazy?