Dairy Science

For my first two years of college I lived with my friend Jordan, a dairy science major here at Cal Poly.  First coming to college I had no idea what that particular major entailed and I would always make sarcastic comments due to my lack of knowledge.  I later found out that Cal Poly offers quite a few different unconventional majors that many other colleges do have available.  It was shocking to find that “wine and viticulture” could be a degree from a four year school.  In my later years at Cal Poly, I was given the opportunity to take two dairy science classes, and although I only got a small overview as to what the major was all about, I was amazed to see what detail unique categories of information the classes taught.  My friend Jordan is now graduating this year, and he had originally planned on heading back to his family farm to work with his family.  Yesterday he surprisingly received notification from Wells Fargo that he is being offered a position in their agriculture banking department, starting off at $50 an hour.  All this time that I have made light of his major and considered myself better than him, and he is going to be making more than twice as much as me the second we leave Cal Poly.  Life continues to teach me lessons, and I will keep on learning as they fire at me!

FACEBOOK GENERATION

I am one of the very few people in the world that I have met that refuse to use Facebook.  The Facebook trend has entirely taken over my generation and it has shown no serious signs of decline.  I made a Facebook my freshmen year in college, and I hated it.  The idea that anyone could look me up and find me made me very uneasy and I deleted mine immediately.  Over the years I have shocked people when I explain that I despise Facebook.  Usually people agree with me that Facebook is over the top, but they say they have a profile for two reasons:  to keep in touch with old friends and to network, or keep informed of events going on around them.  I have always done a great job at keeping in touch with my old friends, but I cannot argue with the second reason.  Although I have never had the problem of being out of the loop, I can definitely say that many people I meet are lost without being able to add them on Facebook.  Today I could potentially have connections all throughout California if I had kept up with my social networking, and that is my only minor regret.  But the day has come and I am finally going to commit to keeping up with a Facebook.  I realize that not having one is a negative image when building a career.  Companies may become suspicious if they are not able to find you, wonder what I have to hide.  Although I want to remain strong and stay away from this new age trend, I am finally going to cave and conform to society.  I am ready to enter the Facebook generation.

Zero Communication!!!

It is interesting to see the way that society responds when a member blocks themselves from all communication.  A family member might panic when their text or third call are not answered within a day.  A business client may be disgruntled if an email is not replied to in a reasonable amount of time.  A buddy may become alarmed if their best friend not checked their facebook every evening.  I was recently very sick, and I had the experience of blocking out the ability to communicate with anyone for a short period of time.  It is strange to think that it was not too many years ago, one was not expected to even carry a beeper with them, let alone a Smartphone or ipad.  I feel that we have slowly adapted to a society that stays in constant communication, and this is not necessarily a positive or negative tendency.  Regardless whether you are for or against this trend, we are going to continuously move in this direction.