A Week of Twitter

What is Twitter? That was the first thing that came to mind when I heard we had to do a week of Twitter for our Hixson class. I had heard some people talk about it, but not very many. So, after class I went to my room and signed up my own Twitter account. I read all the assigned reading we had to read about Twitter just so I knew what it was and what was going on. I thought that this reading was the best because it is the Twitter guide book and tells you pretty much everything you need to know. http://mashable.com/guidebook/twitter/
I made my account, which is https://twitter.com/#!/branygonkunzie, and started tweeting. I personally don't like Twitter. I have been so use to using and getting on Facebook everyday for like the past three years, that it just came to the point where Twitter was a hastle. I only got on to do tweets because we had to for out Hixson class. This was a good assignment for us to do thought, because we learned how to use a different type of social networking that hardly any of us had used before. But, I honestly don't think that I will hardly get on my Twitter account hardly ever again. I can understand why people would have Twitter, just to stay connected to people and follow people that they want to follow and thats the only reason I would consider continuing my Twitter account. I learned how to tag people in your status or tweet updates and how to comment on other peoples tweets. I thought that Twitter was alright, but like i said before I probably won't hardly ever use my Twitter account again. I think that Facebook has pretty much dominated in the social aspect online and I don't believe that Twitter will ever be as popular as Facebook. I could be wrong, but in my opinion I think that I will always just stick with Facebook.

Diversity Event

I went to the N*gger, Wetb*ck, Ch*nk diversity event at 8 last Thursday night and thought it was hilarious! The actors did a very good job getting the point across, but they did it in a very funny way. Most of the time they were making fun of themselves or of each other. They used a lot of the common stereotypes that a lot of people say about their races. I myself am not racist and find it very mean when people say things like that, but I know that people do everyday. They told stories about their races and how they have always had to go about their daily lives knowing that they are different. The stories, to me, were very sad and brought a very good point across, but they made it funny even though they were telling a sad story. I laughed so much!
I was always raised with the N word being a bad word and we were to NEVER say it. I always knew that there were people in this world that were different then me but my mom use to always tell me that no matter what they look like, they still have a heart and feelings just like we do. At times I think that white people are looked upon badly because we make fun of black people. I myself don't. I have a black friend and love him to death! It is just like us making fun of black people; people just automatically think that while people don't like black people, but a lot of us do.
But, back to the diversity event. I thought it was a very good show and liked it a lot! It was very fun and had a very good meaning, so if you guys didn't go then you missed out.

My Best

The time of my life where I was at my best would have to be this past summer when my softball team made it to the state tournament. We had been good for a couple years, but always lost in the sub-state game. We worked off season all year and dominated this season! :) Our record was 25-3 and we were conference champs. All year I had done pretty good, and we all knew we could make it there. We won our sub-state game and were on our way to the state tournament in Fort Dodge!

Our softball team had never been to the state tournament before, so it was a big deal. The whole town of Corydon (where I am from) came to all of our games. Our first round at state we played IKM-Manning and everyone had rated us as losing our first game and being 8th at state. But, we more then just beat IKM; we ten-runned them in five innings and our pitcher had a perfect game. So we moved on to the next round.

We played again on Thursday against Fort Dodge St. Edmond and they were a really good team. We started playing but nothing great had happened. It was in the fifth inning and it was still zero to zero. There were two outs with two people on second and third and I was up to bat. I don't think that I have ever been so nervous in my life. I got in the box and first pitch I hit it all the way to the fence and got a double. I hit in the two girls in and made the score 2-0 and we ending up winning that game because of me and went on the the final round.

Right after I hit my double and was standing on second base, I looked up at our crowd and EVERYONE was standing up cheering for me and my coach called a timeout just so she could come hug me, was when I felt at my best. I couldn't stop smiling and I felt like I had stepped up and done what I was suppose to do when needed. We went to the finals and ended up losing. It was very sad, but all of us knew that we had done something that had never been done at our school. We got runner-up, tons of plaques and medals and enough glory for a lifetime. Everyone still talks about it all the time and it is just awesome that we did what we did.

This best time of my life fits into my first semester of my college experience because of the feeling of accomplishment. That day when I hit that ball, I felt like I had accomplished everything I ever wanted to.  By no means have I ever felt that accomplished here yet, because I'm not doing to hot in college yet, but when I do good on a paper or test I feel accomplished about what I do good.

Beloit College Mindset List

Times have changed along with other things as well. There is the "Beloit College Mindset List" that has a list of seventy-five different things that they think are true about the class of 2014. People think a lot of times that we rely totally on technology or that we would have no idea what something was from the eighties, but we sometimes do know and we don't always rely on our technology. There are many things that they have listed that I find very true and I have done or thought them myself. But, there are some that I find false and then there are some that I have no idea what they are even talking about.  

I totally agree with number one on the list. It is "Few in the class know how to write in cursive." I do not remember how to write in cursive. I learned how to use cursive in second grade and it was cool back then, but once I got into sixth grade it was a hastle and we complained about having to write in cursive. Once I got to middle school I only had to use it every once in a while and once high school rolled around we didn't use it at all. I have also never seen a computer without a CD-ROM disk drive and I always complain about nothing being on TV when I have hundreds of channels on cable. 

With the many things on this list that I find very true, there are things that I don't find true also. When I was in elementary school I had tons of friends and cute little boyfriends and I did indeed twist the coiled handset wire aimlessly around my wrist while talking on the phone to them. I actually had one of those dial with your finger in the hole kind of phones when I was younger. I also do know the reference towards pointing towards your wrist for requesting the time of day. The whole time I was growing up, my mom always did that to me if I was doing something to make us late to refer that we needed to leave. Or if I was talking to someone and saying that we didn't have all day I would tap my wrist. 

Some of the things on the list I have no idea what they even mean. Like who is J.R. Ewing or Doctor Kevorkian? Some of the things on the list do not have any relevance to us and we shouldn't have to know them. I do understand that somethings on the list I should know, but don't. So I guess me saying that I don't know some of them makes it look like we don't know things about what happened or was done in the past. 

This "Beloit College Mindset List" is cool to look at and see what they think we know and don't know. There are things on this list that I do think are true. There are things on this list though that i do not find true and there are somethings that I have no idea what they are. Some people may think that we rely on technology or don't know lots of things, but we are actually smart individuals and we know what is going on.