A Look Back

Where have I gone this semester? It went faster than usual. I returned from Australia with only a 2 month summer which eliminated many opportunities for me. I came to AU feeling like a freshman all over again, because it all seemed new since I was gone so long. I found a house to live in for the year and didn't know what to expect living with three other people.

The search for a job began within a month or two. After seeing people celebrate their success, I decided it was my turn. In doing so, I stumbled upon what I believe I want to choose as my career path. I would like to be a technology consultant. I learned about it during a Deloitte Information session on campus one night.

I took what I learned in this course and applied it to my life. I created a linkedin profile to expand my network. I took advice from recruiters regarding interviews. I created a blog in the hopes of creating an online persona. All these tools are meant to help me and I intend to take advantage of them. With one semester left in college, I intend to make it my greatest.

My Biography Online

After reading NPR's "Startups Help Clean Up Online Reputations", it really made me think about all the pictures of me I recalled seeing on the internet. The scary thing is that the article said, "Even when you delete images from the Web, they sometimes live on search-engine files." I did not know that. In addition to creating positive content about yourself through blogs and webpages, my first solution would be to initiate privacy features on facebook and any other social networks I belong to. You can restrict what certain people see on your profile and limiting potential employers is essential in today's age.

On the same topic, Mark Cuban discusses in his blog, "Your are what your search results return and so are your kids", an online profile using search engines. The difference is, Mark likes the fact that these pictures and details are online and shared, because it is an easy way to document his children as they grow up. I would have to agree with Mark, because today, it doesn't make sense to pay to print out every picture you take. We are in the digital age and we should take advantage of our technology. The old physical photo albums are obsolete and are being replaced by sites like snapfish, flickr, picturetrail, and smugmug. I'm ok with this change, considering I rarely ever processed pictured the old fashioned way.