Ten Years From Now...

Its hard to imagine what life will be like ten years from now. At times, I feel so caught up in my life right now that imagining what next week will be like seems to be a difficult task! It seems like life is a whirlwind; constantly moving, staying way too busy, and feeling like you never get to catch your breath! At this point in my life, imagining the future is somewhat scary! I say everyday that I can't wait until I'm done with school and actually have a career, but actually sitting down and thinking about it makes me rethink my rushing it to be over! When I do finally finish, I'm going to be on my own, and that's the reality that will be hard to face! No more money from the parents every week, no more partying every weekend, no more sleeping in on days I have late classes, no more of the way college life is in general! Its going to be work everyday, supporting myself and having responsibilities that I'm not used to having! But, even so, its all a part of growing up, and in ten years, I imagine a good life!

Ten years from now I want a lot of things. I want to have a successful career doing things that I truly enjoy. I want the type of job that I actually look forward to getting up and going to every morning, but not the kind that overtakes my life. I'm planning on graduating with a degree in marketing so I assume something in that field will be where this wonderful job will be, but that's not all I want as far as a job goes! I've always wanted to be a cosmetologist and hope to be able to have a salon of my own one day. This won't necessarily be a full time affair, but I would love to be able to do it on the side. Clearly this would come after my career in the marketing field took off seeing as how money would be in high demand to even begin thinking about starting something like that!

In ten years I also want a wonderful personal life. I want to find and marry the man of my dreams and spend a few years with it being just the two of us. Then I want to have a family. I want kids, not sure how many, but I'm guessing that this will be determined by the first one!! I want the picture perfect family, the one that everyone wishes they could have. I want to be able to be completely involved in my kids' lives and be a wonderful mother to them, as well as wonderful wife for my husband. I will be completely devoted to my family; they will definitely be my first priority in life!

Overall, I imagine my life to be fantastic in ten years, or I hope it is at least! Happiness, with every aspect of a persons life, seems to be lessening in today's world, but I hope for the complete opposite. I have learned by watching others, and through my own experiences, that life is too short to be unhappy. Ten years from now I want to be living the life of my dreams, but I also want to look back on the previous ten years with absolutely no regrets and all smiles. In ten years, I hope to have accomplished all of the things that I mentioned above...and more!

Web 2.0

This video was very excentric in many aspects. From beginning to end there was never a "dull" moment, and I felt as though you couldn't miss a second of it in order to fully understand. However, on the same note, the video seemed to present the information or "get the point across" in a very simplistic way. I believe that the title of this particular video is suggesting the importance of the internet to society as a whole, and how simple, yet complex it can be. The "Web 2.0" seems to be a general title for the overall technological phenomenon. I completely agree with another student's comment on this video speaking of how the "2.0" is a very small number which only suggest that it will become larger as time goes by and as technology advances. You see this with numerous computer-related things such as versions of programs as well as different types of software. Beginning with "Web 2.0" somewhat forshadows the potential complexity of this everchanging phenomenon that seems to rule our lives. From "2.0" it can only go higher as time goes by.

I believe that Web 2.0 affects someone who is ready to enter the workforce in a few ways. It clearly can convey to them most all of the imformation that they would possibly need regarding pretty much anything at all. On top of that, entering the workforce with this type of technology at your fingertips can clearly make your job much easier with all of the attributes that things such as the internet provides. Employees can complete task, communicate, research, almost anything you can think of, at a very fast rate with the aid of this tool. As for individuals who are already in the workforce, the same may apply. However, with the everchanging developments in technology, someone who is already a custom to doing things a certain way, may have difficulty "learning the ropes" of such a futuristic system. The internet, and technology in general, can be a frustrating concept to grasp, especially when one is already set in their ways. But I do believe that the benefits would far outweigh "consequences" to using such a system.

When they say that we will have to rethink everything, I think they are meaning that we shouldn't "set in stone" the way things are right now. Technology changes daily, and advancements seem to be made by the minute, so getting completley used to something one way is not an option. This "Web 2.0" seems to be just the beginning and over time will develop into something much more complex, yet useful. The way that things are now will clearly not be the way they are in five years. Every part of your life, personal and professional, will have to be taken into consideration with a system such as this. At this moment in time alone, just about anything can be found on the Web. Just think what it will be like in one year, muchless five. There will have to be a constant "rethinking" on, and in, everyday life as we know it.

Introduction

Hi, my name is Brooks and I'm a sophmore here at Clemson!! I'm a marketing major but really want to go into cosmotology when I finish school!! It has just always been what I wanted to do!! I'm from a small town about thirty minutes south of Charlotte but love to go shopping at the malls in the "city"!! Clemson isn't much different from home; lots of open fields, out in the middle of nowhere!! I love it though!! I have the most wonderful family in the world and am lucky to have ALL of both sides living in the same town!! Needless to say, that doesn't happen much!! My parents are the best that anyone could ever ask for and I love them more than life!! I love warm weather and the beach in the summertime, but I love snow, which we don't see much, too!! My friends mean so much, and I don't know what I would do without them!! Clemson football is clearly the highlight of my year...as it seems to be most everyone else's too!! I used to be the type of person that looked at bad experiences as a horrible chapter in my life, but I've learned that without those experiences I wouldn't be who I am today~ One of my favorite quotes, that I relate a lot too, is a Marilyn Monroe quote:

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe less so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”

So true, don't you think?! Well, enough of that....now you know a little about me and my life!!