In Debt as A College Student
October 24, 2009 at 9:19 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment
My favorite Success Series was Jumpstart Your Personal Finances with Peter Bielagus. His speech was about how college students should be in control of their personal finances and how we can get trapped in debt at a very young age. He talked about how at even eighteen years old college students are being victims of credit card fraud and how teenagers are most likely to go in debt.
The thing that he talked about the most that interested me was how that even though he is not married and doesn’t have any kids he already has a college fund set up and money put away for retirement. He stated that he started saving money for his future, and his kids’ futures, during his teenage years. He might not have the best car or the best house but if something tragic was to happen to his life he would not have to worry about money.
After hearing his speech I went to Bank of America and started up my own savings account. I want my future to be secure and I don’t want to have to worry about money ever in my life.
Twitter Crazy
October 12, 2009 at 2:09 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | 2 CommentsTags: twitter
Twitter was never something that I wanted to do. I just thought it was just another Facebook or Myspace and eventually it would just become the next “big thing” for teenagers and young adults to have. But twitter was something I was never going to make an account with because I thought it was meaningless. I mean, what’s the point of updating a status almost twenty times a day so EVERYONE could know what you’re doing at every moment of your life. It seemed more like a stalker website to me.
But in my FYE class it was an assignment to make a twitter account and “tweet” for a whole week. Now I didnt want to fail so I made the account and started using it. At first it was boring because I was following random people and only a couple of people were following me. On the first day I tweeted once and left the account alone for a couple of days because it already seemed boring. But around Wednesday I logged back into my account and my follower’s list doubled literally overnight. I started to look at other people’s twitters and some accounts had 300, 700, and some over 1,000 followers. I didnt even know that many people used twitter and followed random people. But then I started to read some of their tweets, especially celebrity tweets, and after reading them I also followed them.
Twitter overall wasnt as bad as I thought it was. It’s a website that will soon be as big as Facebook and probably as big as Myspace used to be. And even though the assignment is over I have yet to delete my Twitter account because I will probably continue to tweet until I get 300, 700, or maybe even 1,000 followers.
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