What's up with Will?

Major problems... It just seems too early in our lives to decide a lifetime career. I don't know about most other people, but I have a feeling many of us are not ready to make that kind of commitment, not yet. Many of us (freshman) are inexperienced in the fields of study that we have chosen and are hoping to get a glimpse at what it's like so that we can gather a better understanding for what we truly want. I am in that position right now. I am declared electrical engineering but I have no experience in the field and I am relying on the Engineering-specific classes to show me that I can do it and I can enjoy it. For now, I am just going with the flow. The whole class moaned and groaned at my cliche of a question (I get it lol), "How do you know what you want to do in life and is there a defining moment?" I gather that most of the groans were a mixture of 2 emotions. 1. Irritation because every adult asks a high school senior if they're ready for their care

This week in class we talked about our current degree paths and our values. We took a list of a ton of "value" words and were assigned to narrow it down to only 5 that mean the most to you. I chose Efficiency, Skill, Knowledge, Wealth, and Pleasure. I'm aware that those are some very apathetic values, but at the moment, I've got my mind on a set path to do whatever it takes to earn my degree (electrical engineering). To explain, in my education and career I believe it will take Efficiency, Skill, and Knowledge to become successful in my career. Hopefully that will lead to a substantial excess of money that I can use for pleasure/early retirement. It's a very bare-bones approach because I really haven't thought about it a lot. In relation to my current major, I still am not 100% sure that's what I want to do. In all honesty, I had to slap something down to interview for scholarships and that sounded neat and I have grown on it but it is in no way set in s

Carrying over from the events and blog post from last week, we are still discussing diversity and the events that happened at Georgia Southern University last week. In class, we are dissecting the term "white privilege" and trying to gather a more well-rounded to understanding the inherent biases of our society. Following up with white privilege , it really opened my eyes to what it truly means and it's NOT socioeconomic status, which is usually the cause of ignorance for most. It is better defined through examples. A white man walks into a gas station at night with a hood, the clerk may not be as tensed or on edge as if a black man were to walk in with a hood. A white man is less likely to be questioned by the police vs a black man. These situations don't always occur, but they occur often enough to where they are seen as a commonality. It's not fair. It really isn't. But that's the world we live in now. The media also seems to get more attention and re

Make Your Home Among Strangers  is a fictionalized novel (but based on the author's experiences) about a young Cuban-American girl in college who is struggling to discover who she wants to identify ethnically. She is constantly caught between pressures of her own family saying "You act too much like a white college girl" (generalized) and her college friends saying "You act too much like a Cuban" (generalized). She struggles with trying to 'choose' who she wants to be. Topic 3: I believe Liz's family is not enthusiastic about her going to college because it is not exactly the "norm" in Cuba to obtain higher education. After mandatory school, many enter the work force to support their families. College is an interesting concept because you pay a lot, (a lot more for a prestigious college) to attend the university in hopes that you can graduate with a degree that will cover the total cost as well as earn a higher standard of living with yo

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you a child, your world is about to turn upside down. Especially when the film's protagonist, Valentin, is stuck with a one-year-old child as a result of one of his previous hookups. Thrown into dad-hood, he struggles to find suitable work in America in order to support his growing daughter. His primary goal is just to make her happy as she has a terminal illness and he wants to make her childhood as fulfilling and wholesome as possible. After failing the paternity test, the court orders separation from the little girl that he loved and raised which raises a moral dilemma among the audience. Overall, the film was pretty good (until the last five minutes I guess) and threw in some controversial topics without directly alluding to them. In the one scene with the "mom lineup", a trans named George walked up the mic and was immediately swiped aside. Although George probably wasn't going to get the part, it possibl