Diversity

I attended the engineering Diversity Event. I thought that the speaker was a little difficult for me to understand just because it was kind of from the engineers point of view. The one thing that I did understand about his speech is how Diversity is in the numbers. You can have one very diverse group of people and having them all work together the end result tends to be better. I think this was because you have everyones diffrent point of views, and if you look at them all they all mean something diffrent but yet they help you understand the bigger picture in the end.  No matter how diverse people are, you can always find something in common with that person. 

A Week of Twitter!!!

My week of twitter was an interesting one. I felt that setting up an account and remembering to tweet was kind of a difficult thing to do. I felt this way because I personally have more than one social network, and trying to remember to post on each one was hard. My tweets tended to be more about how I felt that day and what my schedule was like. Even though this seems kind of boring to some, I really liked tweeting. It was interesting to see what all everyone else had to say during the day, and to see what else everyone was doing.
I think that I will find value in continuing my Twitter account by using it to network, staying touch with my friends and future employeers, and helping me to become more informed about what else is going on in the world besides whats going on just in my life. Having a Twitter account helped me stay in touch with other peers about diffrent things during the day,  such as other class assingments. I think that I will continue to use my twitter account, because once I got used to using it I felt it was very resourceful and informative. Being able to follow other sites was something I liked, especially the horse sites I followed. Twitter kept me up to date on events that were happening with them, which was interesting to see how many people actually DO use twitter. I personally had never even heard of twitter before this assingment and after one week I feel alot more involved in the world.

My personal best. blog #2

The time in my life that I feel I was at my best was probably when I showed at a kirkwood horse show. I had been taking Saddleseat lessons for awhile and my trainer decided it was time for me to prove my skill at showing. Saddleseat is a form of english riding similar to huntseat if you didnt know. I remember that I got to ride my favorite horse Melvin. Not alot of people could ride him because he was very picky about certain things, and the people he like best were my trainer and I.

Since there were other kids taking lessons also we had to share horses and there was one other person riding him before me. She ended up placing in the class, but left Melvin very crabby for me to ride.  The show started at 9 am and the classes I was in wasn't until later in the day, but i still stayed and watched the whole day. At around 9pm it was finally time for me to show Melvin. I saddled him and got myself dressed and we went to warm up in the practice ring. He was still being very crabby from earlier in the day, and all I could think was "Oh great its going to be a bad ride". 

Now in saddleseat most of the time you are required to ride into the arena at a trot. As soon as we entered the arena he instantly calmed down and I knew than we were going to do good. He Picked up all of his leads at the lope, and did all of his transitions excellent. It sounds really cheesy but it was like floating. I was completley focused and Melvin and I bonded excellent. I've never been happier ever, nor have I felt more connected to a horse. We ended up winning the class out of three people. I could have cared less if I had won, just because I know how hard I had to work to get to that point.  Knowing that all of my hardwork payed off in the end was rewarding enough for me.

I feel that this can relate to my college career because I know that I have to buckle down and work hard to get what I want. Preperation can help me in the long run in studying for test and quizzes, and in doing this hopefully it will be rewarding in the end by helping me graduate school. The best thing in life isn't always winning, its knowing that your tried your very best to get there.

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The Beloit College mind set list is both right and wrong on certain aspects in my honest opinion. Every generation has certain things that are popular during that time, and technology is constantly changing. In Order to keep up with a world that is constantly moving technology has to change, thats just the way it is. For example as the world population increases more food has to be produced. Bigger and better technology is created to make the process of growing and harvesting food quicker and more efficient.
The Beloit list to me sounds like its just someones opinions. I believe this because they assume that the 2014 generation doesnt know the anything about the classic movie stars like Clint Eastwood. I dont care who you are you honestly cant tell me that you've never seen this actor in an older movie or newer one such as Gran Torino.

They say that few in people know how to write in cursive. Now i know for a fact that most of us were taught cursive in say third grade. Therefor im betting that if you asked most of us to write in cursive now, we could all probably atleast give you our name. Now computers thats a whole diffrent story. With everything being available at the click of a mouse nothing is sacred. You can find where people live, where they work, there past speeding tickets, anything. Many of us complain that the computer is running to slow, but really i think its just nobody has any patience. Were caught up in a world that is constanly Go Go Go. Being able to find everything on the internet isnt necessarily a good, sometimes it can be an invasion of privacy. It can take away from your learning experience also. Everything can be made more simple with technology but think about, at what cost is it to you.

Colorful ribbons, DNA finger printing, second hand smoke, Walmart, sitcoms, and War are pretty much the basics of life now a days. The Beloit survey was right about some of these things. Walmart is pretty much the greatest store invented ever. Its almost impossible to not run into someone who smokes. As far as ribbons go, its like a tradition everyone wants someone else to know that they care.

The Beloit college mind set list is a good way for everyone to relize what there missing and what there not. The more the world is progressing, the more knowledge there is to intake. Its not necessarily that people have forgotten some of the things, but its just hard to remember so much, when you have to be learning new things all the time no matter what your age is.