"Women's Studies Research Forum"

I really enjoyed going to observe the presentation done by my professor Angie Wilson titled "Silence No More: A Sequential Transformative Investigation of the Experience of Teenage Motherhood in South Carolina Schools." I found the topic very interesting as a health science/public health major because the social aspects influencing the pregnant teens is a factor of the health of the individual-emotionally and physically. This study seemed well researched on the background with the history of the rhetoric influencing these specific mothers from Puritan times to current social factors. It was nice to the audience to also hear about a successful story of a teenage mother by the presenter put a positive perspective on the subject which helps us to connect success with high education levels. I did find it very interesting with how many schools felt "uncomfortable" with and refused her study. I do feel like a higher sample size would have convinced the audience more, but the efforts do show. The graphs and illustrations really helped the ethos of the study. Once again, I enjoyed the presentation and was enlightened by this issue on teenage mothers and the effects of social factors on their lives.

Into the Future

By being in college, you are guided towards a major in where you would like to study information that will help you pick a job that most suits you and what you like to do. I am a health science major, so it is a pretty general subject to where I have many choices as to where my path could lead to for a future profession.

As of right now, I am looking ahead into my life and see myself as a physical therapist, specifically rehabilitation of athletes (maybe athletic training but not that much money in it). Because I am a collegiate athlete I see the struggeles that athletes have with being sidelined because of injuries due to their sport. I love learning about the body and how movements effect it so I feel like this job would suit me best. Alongside of being a physical therapist, I would also like to take up a coaching or assistant coaching job at a high school for cross country and track (that is if I don't have to have a teaching certification to have the job with the school). This part of my professional life could get busy, but I love working with young people and athletes and that would help me in my personal life too.

My personal life in ten years would be that because I will be around 29 years old, I would hope to be married and living in a decent apartment or home in a suburb area (yet, still paying off PT school loans). I hope to stay living in the southern states because of the hospitality that we all have for each other but I will go to wherever my life will take me. I would hope to be planning on having about 3 kids, but not by 29 years old. I don't exactly feel like being that stay-at-home mom because I will have a job but I would like to provide for my family as if I were one.

Considering these life plans, both professionally and personally, I will need a job that will fit those needs.

"The Machine is Us/ing Us"

By watching this video, the opinions given on the web and Internet correlate with the title "The Machine is Us/ing Us." The title means that by the population using the Internet so much in the business, social, and personal world that we are teaching the machine new things made by us which creates the Internet. The term "Web 2.0" can be defined as how the world wide web is changing the original creativity of people to be dependent upon it.

These trends and fads of the Internet affect someone entering the workforce because the employees need to know about the new and innovative capabilities and extreme communication evolutions between worker and client. The Internet for many businesses is a major platform and companies are looking for intelligent people who are able to work with the Internet to increase business because this new form of communication is quickly reaching all people.

The Internet is affecting people who are already in the workforce because they have to teach themselves or take classes about the different connections and "links" of the Internet and how our population is fueling the information put on the world wide web.

The Internet makes us "rethink everything" because as we learn more about links, websites, and computers we first input our own information and opinions which we are unsure of where to stop our judgements to feed the growing machine. Second, our ideas can be somewhat stolen or plagiarized since it is put to where everyone can see it. Third, we have to rethink what information is true, false, or outdated that people put on the web.

People have become very dependent on the Internet and the information and communication that it entail, as if we are trained as machines.

Beginning Post

Hi y'all!!

I'm Stephanie and I am a sophomore student here at Clemson taking the English 304 class. I am from South Carolina so coming to Clemson was kinda close for me. I am a Health Science major concentrating on pre-professional health studies and hope to get a minor in Athletic Leadership. With this degree, I hope to go to physical therapy school to become a PT or maybe become a teacher/coach later on in life. I am a very outgoing social person but work hard and my grades usually show for it academically.

One unique thing about me is that I run on the Women's Cross Country and Track and Field Team here at Clemson. I have been an athletic person my whole like by playing soccer, golf, tennis, and basketball but have been running competitively since I was in elementary school. This also means that with indoor track season in the winter and outdoor track season in the spring that I will be missing some of the Friday (and maybe Wednesday) classes due to athletic travel to meets around the southeast which is exciting!

I am looking forward to this class because it will really help when we get out of college into the real world with writing formal and informal as well as professional documents for our future professions as well as writing papers for other classes.

Thanks so much!!