ROTC

I actually plan on doing ROTC for the Navy, or NROTC. I am applying for the NROTC Scholarship to five different units, or schools. These schools include the University of Maine, Florida State University, Boston College, Villanova University, and the University of Virginia. My number one choice is Villanova University. I really hope to get the scholarship, since it is a full ride. ROTC for any branch of the military is an excellent program to be a part of. It can do many things for a person. It can teach them leadership, hard work, and discipline, qualities that are important to have in the real world. It also is a near guarantee that if you do ROTC, you will have a job coming out of college. And this job does not necessarily have to be combat-based. Your job could be something like a nurse, a doctor, a mechanic, and electrician, a firefighter, a computer programmer, the possibilities are endless. I plan on being a nurse after I graduate college. Although it may be a very big commitment, you get officer's pay while you are in whatever branch you choose to be in. In conclusion, ROTC is an excellent choice, since it can give you skills and benefits that will last a lifetime.    

DGBL in Education

Digital game-based learning, or DGBL, is now being employed in classrooms across the nation at all levels of education. Digital game-based learning is in many ways, a good thing. Digital games can encourage students to employ skills such as problem solving, strategy, and free thinking. Digital games can also help students work toward achieving goals, and give them the competitive edge that they need in order to succeed in the real world. Education research analyst Patricia Deubel has found that digital game-based learning helps to develop vocabulary skills and enhance mental quickness.However, digital game-based learning does have its fair share of limitations, as well. For example, many games can be distracting, and actually inhibit learning in the classroom. Also, there is only so much that digital games can teach. For instance, a video game cannot give a student the extra help he or she may need to excel in a certain subject.

Blue Pill or Red Pill?

This is a very different decision to make. Both choices have their pros and cons. On one hand is the blue pill. This pill sends you back to the way things were before, like nothing even happened. If you choose this option, you will not have to be subjected to the horrors of the truth. On the other is the red pill. If you choose to take this pill, you will learn the truth, and work towards freeing humanity. I would take the red pill. I have always wanted to know what the world really is. Taking the red pill would allow me to see the truth, and maybe even free the enslaved human race while I am at it. I would be able to see what the real world really is, and be freed from the illusions that this world creates for us. I also feel that I would reach Enlightenment, because I would learn everything that this world has to offer, and thus gain the knowledge needed to overcome the obstacles in my way.

Bandwidth in Education

Bandwidth is the bit-rate at which an internet connection operates. This can be extremely important in education, because very often it will control how fast a classroom can obtain information. If the Bandwidth is slow, then a classroom may suffer, since it will not be able to do things such as gather research, watch videos, and compile data at efficient speeds. I have experienced a slow Bandwidth myself, and it was very detrimental to me getting the information I needed in order to do my schoolwork. A fast Bandwidth, on the other hand, can help a classroom to excel. A classroom with a faster bit-rate can operate with both speed and efficiency, and this will reflect on the impact to the students.

Best Careers of the 21st Century

The highest paying and fastest growing jobs of the 21st Century include the following (in no order): software developer, physical therapist, civil engineer, petroleum engineer, medical scientist, medical physician/surgeon, dental hygienist, registered nurse, computer systems analyst, and management analyst. These jobs pay anywhere in the range from $70,000 to $170,000 per year. They are also in very fast growing industries in today's society. I myself want to be a nurse, so based on my research, I feel that I am in a very good place. I believe that when I come out college with a bachelor's degree in nursing, I will be able to find a job without too much struggle. Maybe one day I can even go back to school to become a nurse practitioner, and make even more money. 

  

The Google Takeover

The "Google Takeover" is a very real and impending occurrence. Google, a multi-billion search engine-based internet company, has recently executed a tactic known as vertical integration. This tactic employs a company buying out every aspect of a certain industry. The industry in this case is the internet itself. Google has grown from just a mere search engine. It is now an e-mail provider, a web browser, a cell phone manufacturer, a computer manufacturer, a research database, a cloud storage network, a map, a news provider, a finance broker, a calendar, a library, a video player, a blogging site, and a social network. Those are just some of the things I could come up with off of the top of my head. As a matter of fact, I am a prime example of this Google takeover. For example, I am writing on Blogger, a Google blogging site, which is connected to my Gmail account, an e-mail provider by Google, while I am on Google Chrome, a web browser made by Google. As you can clearly see, the "Google Takeover" is not just a possibility, it is a reality.  

My College Plans

For college, I plan on going somewhere to study nursing, and do NROTC so that when I graduate, I will be an officer in the United States Navy in the Navy Nurse Corps. I have already applied to the Florida State University, the University of Maine, the University of Virginia, and Villanova University for early action. I will also be applying to the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences for early action and Boston College for regular decision in the near future. My reaches are the University of Virginia and Boston College. My two targets are the Florida State University and Villanova University. My two safety schools are the University of Maine and MCPHS. The school I want to go to the most is Villanova University, because it has an excellent nursing program, and one of the best NROTC units in the nation. It also has a really cool campus, and I think that I will fit in well there. I'm not going to lie, this time has been pretty stressful on me, between having to get everything in, take all the tests, and still get good grades on top of that. I'm getting it done, though, and I know I will get through it.

Renaissance Man

A Renaissance Man, or a polymath, is a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas. Though I am not a "Renaissance Man" as of yet, I want to be in the future. I want to go to college to study and major in Nursing, so I plan on becoming an expert in health sciences such as anatomy, physiology, organic chemistry, and even psychology.I have also heard that it is a good idea to have a minor to go along with your major in college. If i do minor in anything, I want it to be in Automotive Technician Training, since I really like cars, and I think I would be good at it. Based on my goals, I can become a polymath in areas like the health sciences and car mechanics. 

  

Alice looks like a pretty cool program. I myself have barely scarped the surface of the capabilities that Alice has. I predict that we will have a lot of fun with this program. I am very excited to see what else Alice has in store for us. I think it's really cool that it allows you to create your own environment with your own characters and scenarios. In my brief experimentation, I created an aquatic environment that was modeled off of a river. The environment included a shark, an arapaima, a few piranhas, a caiman, and even a few aqueous plants.