Advice To Next Semester

I'm not going to lie, I really enjoyed this class. Angela is a great teacher and wants you to do good and learn in her class. I believe everything we did will help me after I graduate. As long as you keep up with the blogs and the other group assignments you'll have no problem making an A in this class. Best of luck to you!

Web Writing vs. Writing on Paper

Writing on the web and writing on paper have some similarities and some differences. They are the same in the sense that you should still use proper grammar. Depending on the situation, of course, slang is more acceptable to use on the internet. When writing on paper it is more important to use spacing in between your paragraphs to make good use of the paper space.

When transfering a document from paper to the web you should consider how the document is going to be viewed. On the web, the viewer has the freedom to scroll up and down and look at different parts of the document at the same time. This means that the text can be spaced farther apart to help readablity.

Free Write-Spring Break

This week's blog topic is a freewrite. I chose to write about my spring break. Well it started by working Friday and Saturday night at my new job at Pixie and Bills. Then Sunday, me and my brother went down to Myrtle Beach. We started off by hanging out with some buddies of my that I haven't seen in what seemed like years. We ended up hanging out with them for a few days. After another friend of mine came up from Charleston for the night, the next night we went down to stay with him. We had a good ole time. I even thought about transfering to C of C for a minute.
We went out every night and I had great time, blew way too much money though. Clemson is a great place but the beach does have its perks. All in all, this spring break was exactly the break I needed from work and school.

Presentations

All of the presentations I saw were good, so it is pretty hard to pick which one was my favorite. I did enjoy the presentation on the scouting combine, as well as the presentation about online gambling. Other than the fact that those are two things that I am interested in, the presentations had good information, in the right format. Also, they were presented well by each student presented each very well. I also liked the way the background didn't work for the poker presentation, and he just continued on with his presentation and did not let the that stop him. Overall the presentations were fun to watch and were a nice change of speed for class.

Mock Interview Reflection

This week's topic is to reflect on the mock interview process. The mock interview process was helpful to me in many ways. I realized that it takes a lot of preparation to be impressive to an employer at an interview. Even though I felt comfortable in this particular situation, I can see how in a real interview it would be quite intimidating. This experience did show me that I needed to practice my answers and be ready for those weird questions that the interviewer might ask. Overall the experience of a mock interview was a good indicator of how much work I need to do before I really start my interview process.

Free Write

Since this is a free write I figured I'd tell you about my apartment. It is a two bedroom, two bath apartment with a kitchen and a living room. When you first walk in the kitchen is on the right and the first bedroom is on your left. As you continue into the living room, you pass the dining table, on your right, and the second bedroom on your left. The living room was actually a nice suprise when I moved in. Since the couch is built into the wall and came with cushions on it there was no furniture that needed to be moved except for my bed.

Now I've slept on the same handmade bed since I was about four years old, it was a single. I don't think I can tell you how nice it is to sleep on a brand new queen every night. It really does make it hard to leave and go back home, I do anyway but I'm not happy about it. So yeah that's about all that can be said about my apartment and I hope you enjoyed reading this.

cover letter

This week's blog is to respond to a series of articles dicussing the proper format and use of a cover letter with a resume. I found these articles to be very informational and believe the information will be very helpful when the time comes to write a cover letter.

I did not know that each company you send your resume to should have a different cover letter with it. The article on what the content of the cover letter should is what interested me most. I don't know what I thought was supposed to be in a cover letter but now I know. Saying what you offer and what it will take to get you to work there, being specific to the business you are applying to will help your chances of standing out and being hired. One part of the resume process that I wasn't sure on was that contacting the business soon after you apply will help your chances of being hired. I like the way they said it too, "the wheel that squeaks the loudest gets the grease." Of course this doesn't mean be annoying, it only means that showing interest in the company and getting the job will help your chances of standing out and being hired.

article response

The first article I chose to respond to was "How to Answer the Toughest Interview Questions." I thought this was a good article for two reasons. One, that it was short and easy to read; two, that it did point out some of the common questions that interviewers ask as their "stump" questions. The article also gave tips on how you can become better at answering these sorts of questions.
The second article was on how to approach the second interview. The main thing it states is to be specific. Be specific with your skills and your accomplishments, the goal of this is to make yourself stand out from all the other applicants. The article also says to send a thank you letter to the people you spoke with and above all be patient. It states that it can take as little as a few days or up to a few weeks for a company to make their choice of who to hire. These tips will help you keep your composure and be ready when it is time for you to begin the interview process.

10 years

Well lets see, ten years from now is hard to imagine. I guess I don't really think about the future too much. Now that I actually have to think about it, I would think that I want what most people want.

Ten years from now I will be 30, almost 31. Even though I know it will come faster than I think it is still hard to imagine what I will be doing. By that time I will have graduated from Clemson and started some sort of job, that's kind of to be determined though. When I first graduate I'd like to do some traveling with my job, maybe something in sales. Then at some point I plan on starting a family, or I guess that's the way I see it when I see myself at 30. I could definitly see myself going back to work and live in Greenville, where I grew up. By that time I would like to be living in a house that I own, or getting there with at least, and maybe even have a few acres of land to go with it. I play golf and I'd like to throw in there that I'd like to be at least a 10 handicap by then.

I would like to think I'm a pretty simple guy. I like to take pleasure in the simple things in life and all I hope for is a good job and a family to spend my life with.

Web 2.0

After watching the video on Web 2.0 from Youtube I think the title is really prompting the question, "are we taking advatage of the versatility of the internet?" I think it is a good title because I believe most people, including me, do not know all that the internet is capable of doing. A person entering the work force probably should know how to use this program. A person already in the work force should at least be familiar with this new program and how to use it. I think when it says that we will have to rethink everything, it says that only to make you think about what you could use this new technology for and how it will effect our lifes.

Intro

Hey, my name is Clint and I'm a junior in Agricultural Mechanization. I'm originally from TN but I grew up in Greenville, SC. Lets see, in highschool I was a wrestler and I drove a 1967 Corvair. I'm a pretty simple laid back guy. I like to cook; I've always liked working in a kitchen and that's been most of my jobs. I love being at Clemson, most of my family has graduated or still goes to school here. I'm probably going to be a semester late graduating since I changed my major but that's fine with me. I guess on a final note I hope I didn't mess up this blog thing.