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.  

Over the weekend, the cross country squad and I headed down to New York City to run in the Manhattan Invitational Cross Country Meet. We got into the CM vans and started a very long ride to Stamford, Connecticut, where we would stay for the night. We ate at Buffalo Wild Wings, which was very good. I got the boneless chipotle barbecue wings. We stayed at a Marriott hotel for the night, which was a very nice hotel. The team and I woke up, hopped in the vans, and made our journey to Van Courtland Park in the Bronx where we would run in the invitational. The freshman raced in the mourning, and they all did extremely well. All three of them received medals for top finishes. The varsity team raced later in the afternoon. We all had solid performances, but no medals. We got back into the vans, and headed home. We got back to CM by Saturday night.

On Sunday night, I went over my friend Pat's house to watch the Red Sox game. My boys Jack and Mike were there as well. It was an incredible game, and the Sox won with a David Ortiz grand slam combo'd with a walk off single by Jarrod Saltalamacchia that drove in Johnny Gomes. That game made history.

 

Pokemon

Pokemon was invented in 1996 by the Nintendo Company, specifically by Satoshi Tajiri. It quickly became one of the best selling game franchises in history. Pokemon has since become the second-most successful and lucrative video game-based media franchise in the world, only behind Nintendo's Mario franchise. It has been developed into a video game, a card game, and even a television series (with movies). However, the most notable has been the video game series. Pokemon has come out with games for the Nintendo Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo 64, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo Wii, and Nintendo DS. Personally, I like Pokemon. Though I haven't really gotten into any of the new(er) games, I still play many of the versions for the Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance. My favorite versions include Pokemon Crystal, Pokemon Ruby, and Pokemon Leaf Green.