Mid-Year Symposium

The first presenter at the symposium spoke about stereotypes based on the experiences that he's faced in his life due to his ethnicity and his size. He gave examples regarding the KKK and a man who was able to turn his life around, and Jeremy did this to show that if you give a person a chance, they can surprise you and actually be nothing like you would originally expect. The second presenter, Meghan, wrote a paper about the benefits of eating organically, even if it is more expensive. She claims that it's worth the investment because food plays a role in most aspects in our lives, and she gave the saying "You are what you eat" and suggested at the end that we "Make the change". I thought both of the presentations were very interesting, and it was a good experience.

The Aftermath: Social Networking

So far, my final paper has been coming together better than I had anticipated. I was originally worried that I wouldn't be able to find enough research to prove my argument that social networking has made society a more individualized one, using college students as my control group. However, it turns out that I'm not the only person who thinks so. I've found numerous sources that will give me the information that I need, almost making it hard to choose what is most important to include in my paper. In class on Friday we began writing our introduction, which is usually the hardest part of the paper for me to write, but instead the ideas began pouring out and I'm already very satisfied with it. My outline for my paper is done, so now all that's left to do is write the draft, which I feel will be an easy task given the information that I have, along with the interest I have for the topic I'm writing about. I feel that I'm going to be very happy with my final piece of writing in this class.