Sunday, January 27, 2008

10 Years

10 Years from now, there are several things that I would like to have accomplished. I plan on getting my undergraduate degree on time, and as soon as I finish that I will likely go straight into graduate school. Hopefully I will be able to attend either South Carolina or Clemson for that, because the business programs at both are fairly good. It would be in either Business Management or Finance.

That should lead me to wear I hope to be in 10 years: working for my dad in the banking industry. It is what I've always grown up around and I would like to continue doing. I will hopefully have a house by then in Travelers Rest, SC, where I have lived practically my whole life.

Sunday, January 20, 2008

web 2.0

The title of this video, " Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us" is pretty strange. It doesn't mean a lot to the average user until the whole video has been seen. By the end though, it becomes clear that it's referring to the way the internet links everybody together not only to share information but also to share input. The internet is used to solve problems by dividing the workload among a ton of people. Each person gives a little input, and an answer is found. So we are both asking and providing the answers.

Web 2.0 could affect someone ready to enter the workforce because of the huge amount of information available on it. Employers could potentially find information or contacts about a future employee via the internet. The workforce in the future will likely utilize it to get work done, while current workforces most likely do not use it and would probably even be against its use.

We're going to have to rethink a lot of our current infrastructures, ideas, and social norms.

Friday, January 11, 2008

intro

Hey, my name is Robert White and I'm a junior at Clemson. I was born and raised in Travelers Rest, SC, and plan on living there when I graduate. My major is business management and after earning that degree I will probably get my masters in either finance or management. Afterwards I will be working in the family business, banking.

I like to travel and have been many different places sightseeing, fishing, and touring. I spend a lot of time with my friends and fraternity brothers, goofing off or doing anything besides work for school.