Wrapping up...

As the school year is coming to end, I am looking back on my memories from my sophomore year of college. I have grown up alot this year, I have made mistakes, I have learned to learn from my mistakes, I have had so many wonderful oppurtunities as I near the final years of my college life. My sorority has made me a stronger, more independent leader, I have expanded my horizons and taken things on that I never thought I could. This has been one of the most educational, rough, amazing years of my life and I wouldn't change a minute. I have learned that college is about getting an education, despite what I want it to be. I have learned alot about myself, others, and am now, more than ever, focused on my bright future ahead of me.

For any of you ladies out there interested in going through recruitment in the fall, I highly encourage you to do so. Recruitment will be 4 days the first week of September. You can sign up online or wait for the Greek BBQ the Sunday we return for school in the fall. Even if you do not join, just going through recruitment will help you meet new people if you are new or even if you just haven't put yourself out there yet. I encourage anyone with even the slightest interest in Greek life to go through recruitment. It has changed my life so much and it can do the same for you. If you are looking for service and leadership oppurtunities as well as life long friends and excellent networking for your future, Greek life is the life for you. Sign up for recruitment today!

Social Media Taking Over the WORLD

While doing research for my paper in Composition 112, my sister who is a senior at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, showed me this video. It was introduced to her in a social science class and is full of useful information and statistics about the use of social media. I think many of the students in my Composition class will find this to be very useful in researching and writing their final papers.

For some reason the embed code will not work so here is a link to the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIFYPQjYhv8

Support Phi Sigma Kappa

Just a little heads up to anyone cleaning out their closets as they prepare to head home for summer, Phi Sigma Kappa is holding a clothing drive this week to donate clothing to those less fortunate. Look for big yellow bins to donate around campus. I believe there is one in the Union and I know there is one in Roberta Hall by the front desk.

How-To Avoid Social Media Disaster

How to Avoid Facebook & Twitter Disasters is a guide to using social media. It discusses the importance of privacy and how to maintain privacy while still getting full use out of the social media sites of Facebook and Twitter. This article is an excellent source because it is an easy to read, quick guide on something that many people care about, privacy. This source is completely relevant to my topic because what is posted on social media sites may be available for future employers to read. This is a huge issue with college students now as they are beginning to see that jobs are increasingly hard to find. Because of the economy, fewer positions are available and employers want to fill those places with quality people. More and more employers today are using social media sites to sift through the candidates based on their online profiles and what is posted on them.

Social Media and Your Career

How Social Media Can Hurt You Career from CNN.com is an article about how Facebook, twitter and blogging updates can affect your future career. It gives many examples of how others have lost future jobs and present jobs because of inappropriate Facebook and twitter updates about jobs, co-workers and bosses. This article shows how prevalent this topic is and how people are clearly not learning from others mistakes because it is a reoccurring pattern in the business world. This is one of my favorite and most valuable sources I came across. It directly relates to my topic and is exactly what I am aiming to discuss in my paper. It is an easy to read and uses examples of Facebook and twitter updates that are funny to draw people in and keep them entertained while educating them on the severity of posting such things.

Learning Through Social Media

Social Learning by Desing: The Role of Social Media from Knowledge Quest is an article is about social media's role in student learning today. It is an argument for technology education in schools because it will be such a huge role in education in the future. The author, Laura Brooks, is an advocate for social technologies and encourages the use of it among school age students with proper training of use and privacy. This article is great for my topic because not only in itself is it an excellent source but all of the sources used to compile the article are also listed which is very beneficial to those, like me, using this article as a source for their own piece.