Partner Interview

During our interview in the class, I interviewed a guy named Oscar. He grew up in South America with a large family. There were seven kids in his family, and he was the youngest. As I was interviewing Oscar, I found that there were many interesting things  about him. There are more than one things that I found about him that were interesting, but some surprised me more than others.

I think the biggest thing that surprised me that I thought was very cool was that he was the first one in his family to go to college. The reason I thought this was so interesting was simply because of that fact that his family was so big that I would have figured someone else in his family would have gone. I think the reason for this was because although he was originally from South America, he later moved to the United States and lived in Des Moines. Once there he got scholarship offers to play soccer at some community colleges but since he liked to be around more people he decided that he would take his other academic offers and come to a bigger school like Iowa State University.

Some other things that I found out about Oscar that I thought were interesting was that as a kid, he was more the type to sit around and play video games and watch TV. As he grew up though he got into soccer and found a real interest or that also. He enjoyed it so much that he played that all the way through high school and ended up getting offers to play in college. Another thing that surprised me was that he was seven years apart from his next oldest brother. So those were just a few of the things that surprised me about Oscar, but as I interviewed him, there were many other things along with those. 

The world of Blogging.

1. A blog is "a log of thoughts and writing posted publicly on the world wide web." Blog is a combination of the words web and log. There are many reasons that make a blog unique from any other types of writing such as: there is no need for retroactive editing and you can add hyperlinks to multiple sites and sources.
2. Sullivan compares a blog to many different things. A few examples that he refers to are: A ship's log, a book, daily writing vs hourly writing, a diary, and 'The New Republic'.
3. An advantage that a blog offers is that it can be published instantly. Another advantage to having a blog is that you can write about whatever you want and are not limited to any certain subject. One more advantage would be that it is completely free to do, and anyone can start their own blog.
4. Along with advantages, there are also disadvantages or consequences to blogging. Some of the consequences to blogging would be things like anyone being able to comment on your posts whether they are good or bad things; and if someone lies on their blog, it can be easily caught by using hyperlinks.
5. It could also be a good idea to use a blog in a writing class. The reason for this being that you have to express yourself the way you feel right then and once you post it, it's there for everyone to read it. You can then look back on it later and experience how you really felt at that time. Another good reason these are good for a writing class is because of the fact that people can comment on them. They can give you feed back and tell you what they think about it.