Twitter

At first I thought using Twitter was going to be horrible, but after a few days it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be.  However, I will no longer be using Twitter.  To me it seems like another one of those websites like Facebook and MySpace that I’ll just get addicted too and spend way too much time on.

  I already spend a lot of time on Facebook, and if I were tweeting all of the time I would never get anything accomplished.  Having to tweet even for just a week, I found myself spending a lot of time on Twitter looking at what everyone had posted, when I should be doing something more productive.  I feel sites such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and many others are very addicting and end up wasting a lot of time.

            Over our week of Twitter I found it very hard to have twenty quality posts that were actually something other than what I was doing.  To find a link to post, would require a lot more time on the internet looking for something interesting to post for everyone to see.  In the end I would usually post a quote, or what I was doing which was not very interesting to everyone else. 

            A few years from now I think having a Twitter account might mean more to me than now.  It will be a nice way to keep in touch with friends whom I’ve lost touch with over the years.  It would also be handy to keep up to date on activities around the world.  In the end I think getting an experience of Twitter was a good thing.  Years from now I may decide to get a Twitter account, but for now it has to go.

Diversity Event

I chose to go to the event, " Traveling Mercies in Afghanistan, Kenya, Haiti and Mexico."  Right when I walked in the room and sat down a powerpoint was playing.  Displaying pictures of young children living in poverty, and many beautiful places.  The main speaker shared many of his stories to us all.
This guy has traveled all over the world helping many children.  The one that stuck out in my mind was when he helped a small part of a town get access to clean, fresh, water.  Children living in these areas are now much healthier than before because of these water systems. 
Listening to this guy speak made me realize how good of a life we have here in the U.S.  I can't ever imagine not having clean, fresh water to drink every day.  I don't know what I would do.  I started thinking how many of us take things for advantage, and we shouldnt, we have a great life that many dream of having. 

Basketball

The time I was at my best would be during basketball my senior year.  All throughout my life basketball was my favorite sport.  My freshmen year of high school our basketball team was decent, but after that we went downhill.  By the time my junior year rolled around our basketball team was struggling to even get one win. 

When my senior year rolled around I was the only senior on the team.  I knew I had to be the one to push the team.  Our team was very young, and limited to only a few players.  The first game of the season I broke my hand during the third quarter.  Not knowing what I had done to my hand I continued playing the rest of the game thinking I had only jammed my finger.  It was after the game I realized I had done something to my hand. 

The next six weeks I had to sit on the bench and cheer from there.  Over time I learned that I could still help out giving pointers to the girls as they came to the bench.  Not being on the court I still fulfilled my leadership position, helping out however I could. 
The main thing I learned from this experience was that during life there's going to be unpredictable bumps, that you're going to have to push yourself to get over.  Over time it will all be over with and you'll be able to live the normal lifestyle you were before

List for Class of 2014

Beloit College has came up with a list I find very interesting.  A few things on the list I find to be true, however I find some that are false.  Many of the things on the list our generation has just plain forgotten about, but we did learn about it at some point. 

The first one that I disagree with is that few in the class know how to write in cursive.  Everyone was taught it when younger, but many of us have forgotten how to write it.  While learning cursive we were required to use it all of the time, but after awhile we didn't use it at all.  I remember taking the ACT's and having to write the paragraph on the back in cursive and I didn't know how to do it.  I believe everyone can write a little bit in cursive. 

Another one I disagree with is toothpaste tubes stand on their caps.  I can't say I have ever seen a tube of toothpaste that stands on the cap.  I agree with Beethoven being a good name for a dog.  It seems like many movies have a dog named Beethoven in them.  However, when I hear Beethoven I think of only the composer not a dog.   

Many of the things on the list I can say I dont know what they are talking about, which proves the point of the list.  Our generation has grown up in a time where new items are continuously being made.  The list is just showing how much things change over a period of time.