Week Fourteen

In this blog entry, I want to talk about my future. Mostly because it won't require me to do any research and it's something that's fresh on my mind right now.

I took my last spring semester final exam the other day, and although I'm on my way to Mexico to study abroad this summer before I graduate, I can't help but thing about what's to come next.

I wonder if I'm ready. I wonder what type of person I'll be in the workplace. I wonder about what my next group of friends will be like. I wonder if my college years were the best ones of my life.

I just look at my parents or my elders altogether and am amazed that they have lived so much longer than me. It's crazy for me to think about how much more they have been through than I have and how much stronger they are than me. They've gone through heartbreak, the loss of loved ones, separation from some of their friends, maybe money problems, maybe they've witnessed something horrible, etc. I just think I've experienced a lot, but then I think about people who have lived three, four or five times my life span and just am floored to think what will have come through my path.

It's just coming more of a reality lately; now that I'm about to end an important stage in my life. Not only am I leaving college, but I'm ending my softball career, and that's something that's been a huge part of my life since I was 10 years old. It's kind of surreal, and it hasn't hit me too hard yet.

I just wonder what affect it will have on my first career. Will I work in PR? Is it really even for me? I really just picked this major because one of my friends (whom I am not even that terribly close with) told me that was what she was doing on the phone one day. I was like, "That sounds cool." And that was it. Easy as that.

I know it'll all fall into place; I'm not worried.

Week Thirteen

I’m excited about our class party. I think it’ll be a great time. I have really enjoyed my time with our class, and I think we’re a pretty good group of kids. It makes me anticipate working one day, because I figure my co-workers will have a similar feel to what our class had. It will probably be mostly girls, and the people will be educated and well-spoken. They’ll have their opinions, which won’t always mesh with one another, and you’ll always have those personalities that are unforgettable. I enjoyed this class largely because of its small size; I think it’s a healthy number. We have had our ups and downs, and I think with a different teacher, the class would have had a dissimilar atmosphere. I think with another teacher, things would have been forced more.

You got out of this class what you put into it, and I think that’s how the real world will be. Nobody is going to really force you to do anything, and when you choose not to apply yourself, you’ll learn the hard way that maybe you should have went about something differently. I learned more in this class than any other one I took this semester for that very reason; I applied myself more in this class even though it was the one I missed most often.

I really hope to stay in touch with everyone, and I’m sure by some weird twist of fate, I’ll randomly run into one of my Ethics classmates down the road. I look forward to that. We’ll talk about our masterpiece Wikipedia assignment or the trip we took to Golin-Harris. We’ll laugh remembering something someone said in class one day, and it’ll be nice. Really, when I think about it, I think the tipping point to enjoying this class so much was because we made one another laugh. Also though, I really had a sincere interest in the material. Deciphering between right and wrong is really what life is about, and that made me anticipate coming to class every week. I applied myself to this class because I know it will help me in the long run. I know I can hold on to something from Cosmopolitanism or our case studies that will help me out someday, and it may not even be in the workplace.

Like I said earlier, I really hope we keep in touch. And hopefully, I remember to bring the chips Monday.

Week Twelve

I haven’t done much research on it, but it seems lately that a lot of corporations are hitting this “go green” idea really hard. I think it’s great; it’s awesome that companies in America are making an effort to help save the environment and doing their part, but there’s something else about the whole movement that kind of gets on my nerves.

I guess just since it’s all coming out at once, I feel like one of the main reasons corporations are jumping on this fad bandwagon is because they feel pressured into doing so, not so much because they know it’s the right thing to do. I just feel like they, as someone in another one of my classes put it, are “going green to get green.” It just irks me. I have no proof to back my theory, and maybe I’m just being a pessimist, but something about it just appears fake to me.

Another concern I have about this is how long it will really last. Being environment-friendly is a lifestyle change. I think about diets in the States that people test out, and look at where that has taken us. It’s fine for a couple of months, but after that, things are back to the way they were. It’s just easier to do what you want; it’s easier to go to the drive-thru instead of park and go inside, and it’s easier to give in to that tempting hamburger instead of eating a salad. I’m just concerned that America as a whole lacks the will power to stay committed to this, in my opinion, vital trend. Americans want things that are easy and more importantly not time consuming, and going green requires a time commitment and a sort of training, if you will. I just don’t know if it will really happen.

Week Eleven

This past Friday, the majority of our class took a trip to Golin-Harris in Dallas. It was great for me because I had never been inside a PR agency before.

There wasn’t one thing I didn’t like, other than the fact that I feel so behind in furthering my career compared to all of my classmates.

I liked being dressed up in business stuff for a day. It’s not what I‘m usually dressed in, but I know that I’ll get used to a new wardrobe once this school year is over with. It’s weird to think that one day I won’t be the girl who wears sweats and a t-shirt every day.

I enjoyed the atmosphere; there was some feeling of professionalism and yet a laid-back kind of vibe that made me feel comfortable.

I liked the people there. They seemed educated and friendly, and I could see some people had a good sense of humor. I’m going to need to be around people who can make me laugh. I can’t be around a bunch of stiffs every day.

It’s exciting to know that soon things are going to change in my life… in a big way. But it is scary. It’s because I’m just unfamiliar with anything different, and I realize that. Sitting in that office Friday, something I thought about a lot was just how things are going to be in a years time or five years time.

I thought about all the mistakes I will have made at work and wondered what friends I will have made. I thought about who will be “that person” in our office. You know? Like the “Dwight.”

Anyway, those were just some of my thoughts throughout the day.