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Ok so I've had some trouble logging into Serendip so I haven't been able to get enough reflections done, I'm going to paste one that I wrote a few days ago under my newest reflections... also I want to say if you're not playing on the class server PLEASE DO!! there's safe spaces and no more zombies and free food and a glass house!

-I really like the game, it is intuitive once you get the hang of it but not too simple as to become overly repetitive. Being able to get really creative with the game has made it that much more interesting, though I do think that in order to become really creative you have to have gotten to a point where you "get" the game to a deep level, and you know where to get the resources that you need to build a lot of different things.

So.. a struggle:

My struggle has been not to get too sucked into the game world to the point where I am neglectiving more important obligations. This is complicated by the fact that I am technically supposed to be doing this for homework so I can justify it to myself more easily, but it can still conflict with plans I have made. I do like that it offers a bit of an escape. I have also struggled a bit with defending playing the game for homework, though most people have just thought it's really cool. (also I accidentally started a forest fire on the top of the mountain the other day I was pretty afraid it was gonna burn down Wendy's house but i just burned the leaves and trees so that's good)

Achievement: 
Well I spent a good amount of time in the game this weekend, and if you check out the main mountain area where most of the stuff seems to be going on you'll see a glass house that I built into the side of the mountain. I am pretty proud of it. The (stained) glass took a bit of time to craft but I am really happy with it and I think it's really cool. I also really want everyone to come inside, the entrance is a little stairway underneath the glass. I'm also proud of having all the resources needed to make the stained glass, it took a lot of mining to get enough coal. If anyone wants to come I can show them some really cool caverns with lava and gold and such.

Now what?

I'm not really sure.. maybe make the house (or community center as it really is now) bigger, and hopefully get a little indoor lake inside it which would be really cool. I also just want to help other people get involved in building. One important tip: sleep in the bed that Wendy put in the homeless shelter, so when you die the next time you will respawn in the bed and not in the original spot. That ways you'll be by all the action when you respawn!

> My main struggle with this game is that it demands time before you get the really cool reward, or "epic win" as the TED talk we watched would put it. It can get pretty tedious to look for iron and especially diamonds. Partially, I think I am spoiled by finding a cavern with a lot of minerals in it early on playing, and then getting killed by some monsters in the cave. That is another annoying part - when you die you are left with nothing.

Achievement:

I am pretty proud of my mines.. I've dug to the bedrock in multiple places, and found a cave in one. Comparing my house to others, however, mine is obviously much less organized and more haphazard, it kind of just devolves Into a mine.

Now what:

I want to get more creative.. I light want to dig out the whole mountain around me to make a giant ceiling for my house, or maybe create a rollercoaster.