My Overview of How Blogs are Going

In blog number seven I am writing about my experience with these blog posts we do every week. I want to start out by saying that I have actually really enjoyed writing the blogs each week. Even though I sometimes dread writing them I have gotten a lot out of them. What am I gaining from this you may ask? Well I am given the opportunity to write and to write a lot more than I probably ever have honestly. I am given a broad topic and I get to go in any direction I want with it. I hate writing and with doing these weekly blogs has made me hate writing a little less. Out of all the blogs that we have had assigned my favorite one I wrote was the first free write where I had the opportunity to write about anything I wanted and I choose a topic you provided which was about my summer. Why you may ask was this my favorite? Because it gave me the opportunity to write about something that I had actually enjoyed writing and talking about and it gave me the chance to look back on a good time in my life and remember some great memories. I have also enjoyed reading other classmates blog posts. Some of them have very interesting things that they share.

And I feel with reading and commenting on other peoples blogs gives us a better understanding of who they are and their opinion of the topic. I also enjoy seeing who agrees and disagrees with the topic given, for example the blog we had to write about Mike Rowe's interview. It's neat to see other people's perspectives and if they caught something that another person didn't or even myself. I like receiving comments and see what other people like about my blogs or if they have questions or if they agree/disagree with something that I have written. But I think people are too nice in the comments. I feel like people always comment good things whether the blog is good or bad because they don't want to feel bad or they don't want to hurt the writer feelings. But I feel like people need to be honest because no one is a perfect writer. Everyone makes mistakes and it is okay to be that person that has to tell the writer that there is something wrong with there post. I feel like maybe if comments were private where only the writer and the professor could see what is posted people would open up more. People are afraid of being the bad person because no one wants to tell someone they have done something wrong.

"Dirty Work"

Seniors in high school only know one thing and its to attend some sort of college after graduating because that's all school push on them. Everyone makes it out to seem that people that don't attend a four year university of let alone college won't be successful with there life. And that's not true. There's jobs out there that don't require going to college. Do what you want to do not what other people want you to do. At the end you're the one paying back your debt not the people who suggested you to go to college. There are many ways to be successful along with being debt free. Schools have a huge part on this. At the end of the day you want to do something that makes you happy and whatever that may be should then determine whether you go to college or not. College also isn't for everyone, so don't go just because you feel like you have to because then you'll be in debt for no reason. So say you go to college, who says you're going to be good at it? Not everyone is fit to go to college but yet we feel forced to still go.
Rowe uses the quotes " Work smarter not harder" to "Work smart and hard" and I believe this is so true. We're out here doing more then we should but we don't realize it. We could just get the job done while being smart of what we do and putting the hard effort into it. People also think with going to college and getting a degree then they'll have a less likely chance of having to do the hard work or the "dirty work". But someone has to do it it's not going to do it itself. So if everyone goes to college and everyone has the mindset of going to college and getting a degree so that there chance of having to do the "dirty work" is lower then who is left to do the "dirty work"? So we cant have the mindset of thinking college will get us out of that someone still has to do it at the end of the day. I believe his points are very valid and I agree with him on a lot of what he had to say in his interview. I don't think makes me stop and reconsidered why I'm at Blinn because I know exactly what I want to do with my life and the direction I need to head to get there.

My Look On Social Media and Cellular Devices

I believe cellular devices have pros and cons. Many people will disagree or agree with them. They can be helpful when we need to know information as a specific time and there is not a computer near by. Cons, there are so many. We live in a society where we feel like we cant live without our phone being in our hand or at least on us. We feel the need to always be on it or always be checking up on the latest social media posts.

Last weekend, my boyfriend and I had gone out to dinner. Once we got seated I looked around me for about two minutes and just observed what I saw. I was so surprised to see so many people on some sort of electronic device or if they weren't on it it was sitting on the table in front of them. What surprised me the most that it wasn't just the teenagers it ranged from older people to adults to teenagers to even younger children. Why come to dinner if you're just going to be on electronics? Just stay home. The whole purpose of going out to eat is to enjoy it. To enjoy the opportunity to get to go out and have dinner with who ever you're with. Every time my family and I go out to eat we all have to leave our phones in the car or at home because it is rare we ever all are together and get to have dinner together because we all are so busy that we like to be able to have actual conversations without distractions.

Relating to David Brooks article "Intimacy for the Avoidant" the quote " Being online isn't something we do. It has become who we are ..." which is so true. We can do so much online that we don't know any better or any other way. We are so tied up with what we know that we can't just stop. We're all okay with just sticking to being addicted to our cellular devices. Another quote from Brooks is "A lot of this traffic is driven by the fear of missing out." We as people feel if we are not refreshing our social media every couple seconds that we could miss out on something and people just aren't okay with the "missing out" feeling that they get. So therefore people will forever be sucked up in there cellular devices.

How My Summer Went Down

Every summer my family goes on a big trip and we usually try to get as many family members to go as possible. But this summer we had no clue where or what we wanted to do or go. So for weeks my mom searched and searched for something or somewhere we haven't done or gone before. We finally came up with ideas that ranged from going to cancun for a week to flying to California for a week in a half to going on a seven day cruise. But all sounded so fun and every family member wanted to do something different. So weeks had gone by and I hadn't heard much talk about our summer trip as I had as in weeks before.

One night after I had gotten home from work I had asked my mom if she had figured out where we were gonna go this summer. She replied back saying she had no clue yet. A month or so had gone by and I was at a baseball playoff game when I got a group message from both my mom and sister. It said " We know where we are going". I replied "Where?". They replied " Gulf Shores, Alabama". Standing in the middle of the duggout I remember saying "ARE YOU SERIOUS!" I immediately texted them back telling them I didn't want to go. You all are probably think what the heck why not? But because first we had already been to Gulf Shores before and I wanted to go somewhere different because this was somewhat a trip for me for graduation. So I thought I would have had a say so in it. Second the last time we went we stayed at there National Park and camped out in a RV. While staying there there was a huge forest fire not even two miles from us and we lost pretty much everything we brought because we were evacuated and couldn't really take much.

So for weeks I continued to tell them no and I would just go stay with my dad for the ten days they would be gone. And they just kept telling me that this trip would be different from the last and that I just needed to go and that I should be grateful that we are able to go on vacation. It took me up until the second day before they left to change my mind and go. So I ended up going and overall it was an eventful and memorable trip. I definitely would have regreted not going especially with everything that we got to do. I just thought it was going to be boring because we had been there done that sorta thing. But there was so much more stuff that we go to do this time that we didn't do last time. So after ten days of vacation I finally had to adult for the first time and worked the rest of my summer.