Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Twitter Catastrophy
twitter tweet tweeting twittering, whatever you would like to call it. I, however, hated this assignment. I started 'tweeting' and it was going okay. I had followed multiple people and multiple were following me. Although even with putting my "twitter" on private, I still feel like facebook is more secure; especially by the "adding" of "friends" and its not so easy to just follow or as I call it "stalk" someone. I mean a lot of information is on these websites and realllyy super smart people have no problem hacking into a profile to find out all your information and your friends information if you have no problem posting things especially if you feel like its "safe and secure." Twitter, for me, did not work. My profile worked for the first 4 days. Then just froze, wouldn't let me post anything, or respond, or it just wouldn't load the whole page. I tried several times and different things to fix this problem but it didn't work for me. But this assignment is done now, thank goodness. I can understand how twitter would be beneficial for some people and in advertising but it also takes a lot of time to do so. To be caught up with everyone you would have to be on it quite a bit. Comparing twitter to facebook they do have a lot in common. Facebook is more expanded though, it also gives you more to do than just "update status." I love you all and this has been a great class and getting to know you guys but....I'm sorry I don't want to know EVERYTHING you guys are doing at EVERY second. Facebook seems to be more broad rather than twitter. I can understand a lot of people continuing to use twitter but I won't...especially since I would have to make a new one and that just seems like more work when I can just talk to most my friends on facebook. :)
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Diversity Blog
Yes, I know I am late posting this but time has just flown by this past week. I went to A Business case for Diversity. And yes I am very good at procrastinating. To me this event was about how more diverse people have advantages and are likely to be more accurate over just intelligent people.
Scott Jones used quite a few mathematical problems to prove his theories and some were a little confusing but I tried to stay with him. He used these to show how many things work together and create accuracy and prove his theories right.
Over all, I was not too enthused with his lecture. I figured it would be more of a lecture on how to be more diverse and group with others, learn from them and help teach them what they don't know, work together. I figured it would be more about hiring different kinds of people in a work area but I still learned quite a bit.
Scott Jones used quite a few mathematical problems to prove his theories and some were a little confusing but I tried to stay with him. He used these to show how many things work together and create accuracy and prove his theories right.
Over all, I was not too enthused with his lecture. I figured it would be more of a lecture on how to be more diverse and group with others, learn from them and help teach them what they don't know, work together. I figured it would be more about hiring different kinds of people in a work area but I still learned quite a bit.
Monday, October 11, 2010
My BEST :)
A time I felt at my "best" would probably my senior year. I was involved in varsity cheerleading for football and basketball as well as competition. As one of the few seniors on the squad I had to help lead us and help the squad. Mostly we needed to work on technique and timing.
Since, well most of you know by now, I'm not that shy of a person and I have a loud mouth, I was mostly in charge of getting all the girls' attention. We had 18 girls on our competition squad with 2 alternates and 26 girls on our varsity football squad. Boys Basketball only had 6 for varsity. Most of the other few seniors on competition were involved in other groups and activities and I was not so I was sure to be at every practice.
I felt like I had a lot of responsibility and I led our group. I always made sure I didn't yell at them or put them down I gave constructive criticism to help them. If a stunt (when cheerleaders throw people and catch them or hold them up in the air) doesn't work I help them figure out what's not going right. Being a senior and having 4 years previous experience helped me to have this responsibility and knownledge.
Since I did this I feel like I have been able to help others my freshmen year here on like things. Such as others' papers or assignments. I give them constructive criticism and let them know I'm always here if they need help.
Since, well most of you know by now, I'm not that shy of a person and I have a loud mouth, I was mostly in charge of getting all the girls' attention. We had 18 girls on our competition squad with 2 alternates and 26 girls on our varsity football squad. Boys Basketball only had 6 for varsity. Most of the other few seniors on competition were involved in other groups and activities and I was not so I was sure to be at every practice.
I felt like I had a lot of responsibility and I led our group. I always made sure I didn't yell at them or put them down I gave constructive criticism to help them. If a stunt (when cheerleaders throw people and catch them or hold them up in the air) doesn't work I help them figure out what's not going right. Being a senior and having 4 years previous experience helped me to have this responsibility and knownledge.
Since I did this I feel like I have been able to help others my freshmen year here on like things. Such as others' papers or assignments. I give them constructive criticism and let them know I'm always here if they need help.
Monday, September 20, 2010
Beloit College Mindset List
Hey everyone! After reading this list and thinking how much things have changed already from when we were little and collecting Beanie Babies, I was also thinking how somethings on this list were not quite 'correct' if you want to say. At least not for me.
I can't speak for other people but I for one did not grow up in a 'well off' home. We didn't have most things that my other friends did. Usually I went over to their house to play in their big backyard or on their tampoline or play with their battery powered kid sized jeeps.
I can agree with most things on this list in how kids traded Beanie Babies, most didn't have a cord to twist on their phones, and honestly I've always thought Beethoven has been a good name for a big dog.
Other items on this list in a way made me upset. It seemed like they were trying to blame my generation for some of the flaws or not knowing who people are. I believe it reflects on our society and economy not just us in general. We're kids we learn from our parents and those around us. I know I grew up in a single parent home with my brother. My mother had a job, sometimes two, and also went to school full time. Honestly, I don't know how she did it raising two kids by herself and still taking us to our soccer, football, softball and baseball games. But back to the list; I learned cursive, I use email, I don't know the latte-talk. "10. Entering college this fall in a country where a quarter of young people under 18 have at least one immigrant parent, they aren't afraid of immigration...unless it involves "real" aliens from another planet." I believe that is definitely a reflection of not my class and generation but our country. I feel like the last part is calling us stupid like we will believe anything. "15. Colorful lapel ribbons have always been worn to indicate support for a cause." This one, well, I'm not sure what is wrong with that but I like wearing ribbons or something that shows I support because to me when I see someone else that's doing it, it knows that I, or what I'm going through, I'm being supported.
As you can tell, I have my opinions and agree with most of the list but there are still those few that I definitely don't. I liked reading this list though, it made me reflect and remember little things from my childhood, how I grew up and how others households growing up may have been different.
I can't speak for other people but I for one did not grow up in a 'well off' home. We didn't have most things that my other friends did. Usually I went over to their house to play in their big backyard or on their tampoline or play with their battery powered kid sized jeeps.
I can agree with most things on this list in how kids traded Beanie Babies, most didn't have a cord to twist on their phones, and honestly I've always thought Beethoven has been a good name for a big dog.
Other items on this list in a way made me upset. It seemed like they were trying to blame my generation for some of the flaws or not knowing who people are. I believe it reflects on our society and economy not just us in general. We're kids we learn from our parents and those around us. I know I grew up in a single parent home with my brother. My mother had a job, sometimes two, and also went to school full time. Honestly, I don't know how she did it raising two kids by herself and still taking us to our soccer, football, softball and baseball games. But back to the list; I learned cursive, I use email, I don't know the latte-talk. "10. Entering college this fall in a country where a quarter of young people under 18 have at least one immigrant parent, they aren't afraid of immigration...unless it involves "real" aliens from another planet." I believe that is definitely a reflection of not my class and generation but our country. I feel like the last part is calling us stupid like we will believe anything. "15. Colorful lapel ribbons have always been worn to indicate support for a cause." This one, well, I'm not sure what is wrong with that but I like wearing ribbons or something that shows I support because to me when I see someone else that's doing it, it knows that I, or what I'm going through, I'm being supported.
As you can tell, I have my opinions and agree with most of the list but there are still those few that I definitely don't. I liked reading this list though, it made me reflect and remember little things from my childhood, how I grew up and how others households growing up may have been different.
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