To start off I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, I would much rather just talk to someone then e-mail them. On top of that I'm not good at computer stuff, but I know what I need to know and get by. I have a face book account which I use, but I don't post on walls very often just because It easier to text for me since when I'm on the computer I usually don't have a ton of time to mess around. So Twitter for me wasn't really anything great, I can see how a lot of people would really like it but it's not really my thing. I personally think it would be kind of annoying hearing little things like: when I woke-up, and when I'm going to eat, or study. Some people I sure would love to just sit on the computer and see what all their friend are up to. I don't have near enough time to sit there and read what everyone is up to. I just left twitter up in until I got my 20 post so it wasn’t that time consuming to do that. I think that it would be really cool to follow someone who is famous just to see what their life is like but I would kind of feel like a creep watching what they are up to. That’s another thing I would feel weird if someone was following me and they ask me about something that I did last week like, how did practice go last Monday. I would feel like they are stocking me and that just a weird feeling. This experience definitely opened my eyes to a new source of social media, but once it’s done I’ll probably delete it because I get five or six e-mails from twitter everyday that just make it a pain to check my e-mail. Like I said before I’m not great with computers so I’m not sure how to make a link, you can get on my twitter account by going to twitter.com and typing in Collin Fett.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Monday, October 18, 2010
My story
There was a day that when I was playing basketball at the YMCA back home with all my friend that I was on fire. It was the best feeling every I could literally make every shot on the court without any problem. It just felt like everything was in sink, I felt so smooth and so confident. I know that this feeling that I had can translate over to other parts of my life and really help me to excel.
On this particular day at the YMCA, it was a week day over Christmas break my senor year. I went to the Y about a half hour before my friends got there to shoot around for alittle while. I still remember everything from that day, there was this little kid that was there and I was talking to him, and he started getting my rebound and passing me the ball. The kid was so amazed by how many shot that I was making that he didn't want to stop rebounding the ball for me he literally stayed and rebounded for a half hour. I think that because the kid was so amazed that it gave me confidence to make the rest of my shots.
The feeling that I had to get me into this groove at the YMCA that day it a feeling that I can work to get into everyday. I think that it is very important to have confidence in everything that you do. You need to be confident in every answer that you put on every test and to every person that you talk to. I learn a lot about how to be successful that day.
I learned how to live my life smooth and confident one day at the YMCA from a little kid. One day at the Y alittle rebounded for me and made me feel like god, it was the coolest feeling ever and it gave me confidences to be a better shooter. I use that confidence that I learned from that kid everyday in my life and I feel that it has helped my a lot in my first part of college.
On this particular day at the YMCA, it was a week day over Christmas break my senor year. I went to the Y about a half hour before my friends got there to shoot around for alittle while. I still remember everything from that day, there was this little kid that was there and I was talking to him, and he started getting my rebound and passing me the ball. The kid was so amazed by how many shot that I was making that he didn't want to stop rebounding the ball for me he literally stayed and rebounded for a half hour. I think that because the kid was so amazed that it gave me confidence to make the rest of my shots.
The feeling that I had to get me into this groove at the YMCA that day it a feeling that I can work to get into everyday. I think that it is very important to have confidence in everything that you do. You need to be confident in every answer that you put on every test and to every person that you talk to. I learn a lot about how to be successful that day.
I learned how to live my life smooth and confident one day at the YMCA from a little kid. One day at the Y alittle rebounded for me and made me feel like god, it was the coolest feeling ever and it gave me confidences to be a better shooter. I use that confidence that I learned from that kid everyday in my life and I feel that it has helped my a lot in my first part of college.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Beloit College Reflection
The Beloit College mindset is a surprisingly accurate list of the way my peers and I thing about the world. Many of the seventy-five mindsets on the list are very true, but there are a couple that I disagree with. The mindsets that talked about a person that I have never heard of, and say that they have always been dead to are obviously very true. There are some mindsets that I feel almost make my generation sound uneducated, like saying that we don't know who Michelangelo is. I think that for the most part the college did a very good job compiling the different mindsets of my time.
I agree with a vast majority of the mindsets that the college came up with. I agree obviously with all the mindsets that say that something has always existed since we were born. These are thing like DNA fingerprinting and the human genome. There are a lot of names that are brought up saying that we have never heard of, and for the most part it was true I have never heard of Ice-T, or Dirty Harry, or John McEnroe. There were a number of mindsets that talked about the cold war, and since I was not alive in that time all the ones about the US getting alone with Russia seem right to me. For the most part I feel they got the mindsets correct for my generation.
I disagree with a small amount of the mindsets that they brought up. I think that some of them make my peers and I look uneducated. They said that Al Gore has always been animated to us, this isn't true at all in fact I can't think of that many Al Gore cartoons, I would say that the majority of my peers know that Al Gore was the vice president under Clinton. Once again they say that we don't know that Czechoslovakia was a country, I would bet there are quite a few people my age that know that is was. Lastly they say that we don't know who Beethoven is I would be very surprised if someone doesn't know how Beethoven and I would venture to say that many could hum one of his master pieces. There were few mindsets that I disagree with, I disagree with some because I feel like they are making fun of my generation.
I think that Beloit did a very good job in summarizing a whole population into just seventy-five mindsets. Many of the seventy-five mindsets on the list are very true, but there are a couple that I disagree with. I agree with all the ones that date us, meaning if something was invented before we were born obviously we won't remember what it was like before that. There were a couple mindsets that I disagreed with, because I felt that the college made us out to be somewhat uneducated. I really enjoyed that article and think that it was very accurate.
I agree with a vast majority of the mindsets that the college came up with. I agree obviously with all the mindsets that say that something has always existed since we were born. These are thing like DNA fingerprinting and the human genome. There are a lot of names that are brought up saying that we have never heard of, and for the most part it was true I have never heard of Ice-T, or Dirty Harry, or John McEnroe. There were a number of mindsets that talked about the cold war, and since I was not alive in that time all the ones about the US getting alone with Russia seem right to me. For the most part I feel they got the mindsets correct for my generation.
I disagree with a small amount of the mindsets that they brought up. I think that some of them make my peers and I look uneducated. They said that Al Gore has always been animated to us, this isn't true at all in fact I can't think of that many Al Gore cartoons, I would say that the majority of my peers know that Al Gore was the vice president under Clinton. Once again they say that we don't know that Czechoslovakia was a country, I would bet there are quite a few people my age that know that is was. Lastly they say that we don't know who Beethoven is I would be very surprised if someone doesn't know how Beethoven and I would venture to say that many could hum one of his master pieces. There were few mindsets that I disagree with, I disagree with some because I feel like they are making fun of my generation.
I think that Beloit did a very good job in summarizing a whole population into just seventy-five mindsets. Many of the seventy-five mindsets on the list are very true, but there are a couple that I disagree with. I agree with all the ones that date us, meaning if something was invented before we were born obviously we won't remember what it was like before that. There were a couple mindsets that I disagreed with, because I felt that the college made us out to be somewhat uneducated. I really enjoyed that article and think that it was very accurate.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Hixson Diversity Exerience
Today I attent a diversity event called "Teenager at Alcatraz: The Clarence Carnes Story". This was an old man who told a small crowd a story about collecting stories from people we were indians in the south. He dicided to start doing this because when he read a book about history in Southern America he noticed that there was nothing said about the trail of tears and other impotant things that happened to indians in their history. He then went on to tell stories about an indian boarding school. This school was very tough, many kids were killed by other kids. The teachers would let the kids go down on the football field with sticks and belt and beat up the smaller kids. The small kids had to make it across the length of the field or get killed. The story was very intresting and I am very glad that I attended.
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