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For this blog post I would like to discuss the everyday troubles of my life. Today I had to pay 18 dollars for a ride to school in a Taxi. My Jeep has not really been running all year and this has absolutely been killing me. My life has been largely in the hands of my friends who could give me rides around town. Lately, my friends that give me rides have not been able to so I have just been left out to dry. My roommate was taking a class at KCC and so I have been relying on him for a ride to school all year but he has not been home since our last Baseball road trip. He went back home to Monterey, California. This move by my roommate has not only killed me in the sense that I no longer have a ride around town but it has also affected the food cabinet. Ever since my roommate has been gone we have not had any food. This is a result of us being good roommates and waiting for him to come back to go grocery shopping. I think we will just go ahead and get groceries soon because it is hard to live without food for so long. Because of all of this stress that I have been experiencing all quarter I have not been doing very well in my classes this term. I am normally a 3.10 g.p.a. student but this term I think I will be lucky to just pass all of my classes. To top it all off, my housing situation is all up in the air right now as well. Currently, my two roommates and I are renting a 4 bed room house that we struggled finding a 4th roommate all year. Well 3 weeks ago I received a text from our landlord saying she is going to sell the house now. So we have had people randomly coming over to look at the house while we still live in it. My life is currently a mess and I cannot wait for summer.

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Blog #3 Internet Security

As an internet user and consumer of internet goods/services I am not too concerned about internet security. I do not really concern myself with worrying about my personal information being shared over the internet. Although I know I should start. I do most of my internet surfing from my personal laptop at home. When I purchased the laptop it had an application called “Kaspersky Internet Security.” I have basically trusted my whole internet surfing life to that application. If the website/seller can guarantee that my information will be kept safe I would appreciate the guarantee but I would not really care honestly. If it came down to it and I wanted to buy something from a website but it did not protect my info and just shared it freely I would have still purchased the product if I really wanted it. Then whatever happens to my information after that is completely up to fate. Personally I like being put into a “persona” because I find it very helpful to my online experience. If I were faced with the decision of sacrificing convenience for less information sharing over the internet, I would not make the sacrifice. Personally, using the internet is completely based on convenience. Everything about the internet spells out convenience. When someone turns to Google for some quick answers they are opting to use the internet to do so instead of getting the information out of a textbook or whatever. The internet is used to get information and it has to be as quick as possible. Every day our desires for faster internet, more bandwidth, and overall more internet accessibility are expanded and worked upon. In order to make the internet more convenient, we internet users have to sacrifice a little bit of our “personal information.” Nothing in life comes without sacrifices.

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Customer Service

The best customer service I have ever had was when I had first purchased the Playstation 3. Well my parents purchased it for me because of the deal that I made with my Step-Dad. The deal was if I can hit an over the fence homerun by the end of my last season in Little League, he would buy me the Playstation 3. This was back when I was 12 years old. So when playoffs came around I still had not hit one over the fence. I was having a great season though and we made playoffs. It came down to my second to last game in Little League when I hit my homerun. It was against the Dodgers in a game to determine seeding for the city championship round. We went on to lose the game but I was beyond excited because I was going to be receiving the newest Playstation. Anyways after a few months of owning and loving the Playstation, my little brother broke it. I was letting him play a game and he decided to shove a PSP (Playstation Portable) game into the disc slot. So my parents decided to take the Playstation back to the Costco it was purchased from and we got our full money back. This was a great customer service experience because it was such a pain free process. Well disregarding the Playstation breaking that is. I never would have thought they would still accept that product to be returned and refund us our full money back. The original purchase was done back when the original Playstation 3 cost about 600 dollars and we had purchased the combo pack with the extra controller and a game so mine was around 700. Costco still decided to give us a full refund which was amazing.

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Lab #2

I picked my major because I honestly did not have another plan. I thought marketing sounded interesting and so far it has proved to be so. This summer when I was planning on coming back to playing College Baseball, I had originally planned to go down to Eastern New Mexico University down in Portales, New Mexico. That plan fell through at the last possible minute and I had no idea what I was going to do. Then out of no where my friend on the Softball team here text me and told me to come down to Klamath Falls. So I called Coach Miles and he remembered recruiting me from my junior college and said to come down. Two weeks later, still without a place to live I moved down to Klamath Falls. I am so beyond blessed to have found this place. If I did not find this place I would still be at home back in Reno, Nevada and I probably would not be in college. The best place I have ever travelled to was Florida when I went to Disneyworld. This was a crazy trip, to start it was just a few months after the Sept. 11th attacks on the World Trade Center. Next, I had to fly by myself down to Orlando because I was meeting my grandparents down there. I was also only 10 at the time. After my first stop in Salt Lake City, Utah, I had to wait out a 10 hour flight delay because of icy conditions in Denver, Colorado. I would most like to travel to Spain. I did a project for my Art History class my freshman year of college and I really enjoyed researching about Spain. Also my family lineage is from Spain. My hobbies include a lot of outdoor activities. Such as; Baseball, Snowboarding, Wakeboarding, and Hiking. My dream job would be to make crazy intense inspirational commercials for a snowboarding company.