A Look Into My Life

"You two should break up, you're too young to be in a long term relationship." "Why are you wasting your young teenage years being in a relationship." "You two won't last when college hits." These statements and questions are something I hear almost EVERYDAY. But let me give you a background as to why I hear them and why I couldn't disagree more. It was basketball season my freshman year of high school. My brother played and we traveled to watch him play at a school in our conference called Paint Valley. While he was playing, I noticed this super cute guy on Paint Valley's team wearing number three. So naturally I tell my mom and of course she knows his aunt. My mom messages his aunt and his aunt told him. A week later I received a direct message from Anthony, cutie number three, on instagram and the rest is history. February 22, 2014 Anthony asked me to be his girlfriend and of course I said yes. Five and a half years later we ar...

I have always loved keeping up with my social media accounts and I would have considered myself pretty knowledgable in social media; well I did until I start reading The Art of Social Media. I have only read through two chapters of this book so far and Guy Kawasaki has already listed many topics that have surprised me. One point that made me laugh was point one in chapter one, "Pick a Neutral Screen Name." I laugh because when I first created my Instagram (in sixth grade) I created the username @futureamericanidol' 12 year old McKenna didn't see a problem in it because it was cute for my age and I love to sing so it was a good username for me. Well then eight years later, I find myself not able to change my instagram name because people began to know me by @futureamericanidol and I felt connected to it. Guy explains in this point that you have to think years in advance when creating a username so when you, for example, are applying for a job, its easier to search an...

Do you remember the emotions you experienced when you were first moving into college? SO many emotions. Excitement because you get to live on your own but yet anxious because you won't have your parents right there. Learning how to live in a new area is scary, but unlike Ismail B. Ajjawi, I was just moving to a different city in my home state, not a whole country. While freshman began settling in at Harvard University on Tuesday afternoon, Ajjawi was dealing with many different emotions than any other freshman that day. Shortly after Ajjawi makes his way into Boston, he has to try and negotiate his way into staying in the U.S. After hours of questioning and extensive searching, they find Ajjawi's friends had made posts about politics that oppose the U.S. and because of the posts his friend's made, he now has his VISA revoked and was deported. The school states in this Crimson article  that they are trying to get this taken care of before classes start on September third...