"Could Your Facebook Profile Throw a Wrench in Your Future?" by Rebecca Dince

I personally think the employers have every right to look at your public online pages. If you post something you don’t want certain people to see then don’t post it at all. Our generation has a hard time understanding that stuff people put on the internet is on there forever. If you think about it in the employers’ point of view would you want to hire someone who has pictures of them all over the Internet doing drugs or drinking alcohol? Even just one person can ruin a company. People should only post information or pictures that they are comfortable for everyone to see. The employers are just doing their jobs and if that involves not hiring someone due to inappropriate images or information that they posted on the Internet they have every right not to hire that individual. People need to be responsible for their actions. Use this article to learn a lesson, be careful what you post because it can come back and haunt you.

"Focusing on Friends" by Steve Tesich

There is only one situation I can think of when I was proud yet embarrassed in front of my friend. This friend of mine is a guy, back in high school he was one of my best guy friends. But I always had these feelings for him. Before we graduated I told him how I loved being with him and around him and that I’ve always had feelings for him. Unfortunately he did not feel the same way about me because of our strong friendship. I was proud of myself that after almost 5 years of friendship I was able to confront him about it. Yet I was also embarrassed because he didn’t feel the same way about me. Which ended up making me feel like I made a fool of myself. The good news is we are still amazing friends and if anything confronting him made me stronger. There will always be a special place in my heart for him but I am perfectly fine with just being friends.

Making Connections #2

Thomas Wolfe quoted "you can't go home again". Now for many people that may be true. In "Abandoned but Not Alone" by Thomas Oliphant the kids in that article physically cannot go home again. Their parents have kicked them out and practically disowned them for being gay. Those are the kids who can't go home again. This quotation can also apply to the choices students make on where to attend college. If it's far enough most kids barely get to go home and see their family. As for me I am only two and a half hours away from my home. I can't go home anytime I want but I am close enough for if I want to go home it’s only a couple hours out of reach. I wouldn’t like being too far away from my home because I enjoy seeing my family every so often. That’s why I personally chose to stay fairly close to home.

Making Connections #1

In a way I can somewhat relate to Joseph Suina in “And Then I Went to School” and Amy Tan in “Mother Tongue” because I’ve had a recent experience when I was among people who I did not share a common language with. This past Columbus Day weekend some friends and I went to Montreal to visit my friend for her 18^th birthday. In Montreal the common language is either English or French. Luckily most people there spoke English but there were a handful of people who only spoke French. Most of the signs were all in French too so it was kind of hard to understand where to go. Unlike my other friends I was with I took French in high school. So I had some idea of where to go and what people were saying, even though I was never really good at French. But it was so weird to be surrounded by another language I only knew so little of. It felt kind of confusing to navigate our way around Canada.

"Let the Colors Run" by Ron Suskind

In the short story “Let the Colors Run” by Ron Suskind a young man was asked to write a five-page midterm essay for his class. Instead he wrote a very beautiful two-paged poem. After deep consideration the teacher gave him a B. Now if I were the teacher in this situation I’d be confused at what to do as well. Although the poem was very beautiful, that was not the assignment. I’d probably feel bad giving the student a low grade since he clearly put a lot of effort into the poem, so I’d most likely settle with a C or B. It was defiantly reasonable that the teacher will be grading the research paper harder next time. And if the student didn’t do the next paper correctly I would definitely give him a failing grade since he had a conference with the teacher about it.

"Abandoned but Not Alone" by Thomas Elephant

Thomas Oliphant’s argument in the reading “Abandoned but Not Alone” is going against the parents who kicked out their own kids because they were gay. I completely think his argument is reasonable against the parents of those kids who were abandoned. I don’t understand how a parent can just kick their own child out because they are gay. Why should that even matter? The parents should be supporting their children not shunning them from the family. I can’t imagine my parents ever doing that to me and I am so thankful my parents will always be there for me no matter what. I think the Point Foundation is such an amazing program. My favorite part is how an adult helps move in a student on their first day of school so they don’t have to do it alone. It is sad at the same time because there are so many other kids out there that need help but the foundation can’t support all of them.

"The Meaning of Work” by Rodrigo Joseph Rodriguez

After reading “The Meaning of Work” by Rodrigo Joseph Rodriguez it made me think to myself what I value in a job or career. I’ve come to the conclusion that what I want for my job is something I enjoy doing everyday. I want to be happy with my job, if I’m spending the rest of my life doing the same job it might as well be something worth getting out of bed for. Although a good salary is also a very good plus I think I would rather have something I enjoy. My plans for the future is to become a Nurse Anesthetist, lucky for me they have a very good salary so hopefully it will be something I really enjoy. I enjoy the math and science so hopefully this job will be a good fit for me. My grandmother was the one who suggested nursing to me because she was a nurse then after doing more research I decided to go for Nurse Anesthetist.