User:AndrewRyan123

I often find myself enveloped in the world of Wikipedia, following hyperlink after hyperlink on countless different pages on any topic. I typically begin my journey by typing in the Google search bar for a question I am seeking to answer, and end up on the site. After beginning my reading, the blue words and phrases stand out to me from the black text on the page. I see them as opportunities to find out more, and continue along a journey filled with wonder.

I am like a Wikipedia page.

I am open to editing, with multiple contributors making me who I am. I always enjoy meeting new people and allowing them to shape and improve me in some way. At school, I view every day as an opportunity to learn something new in the classroom, yearning to leave with something that I had not known previously. I am always happy to work with others and hear their ideas, such as working to enact my peers’ ideas and suggestions through student government. Whether it is through a new addition to my plethora of knowledge or a tweak to something about me, it is a change for the better. Although people doubt Wikipedia’s credibility, I see the benefit of multiple contributors as a way to help me become a more well rounded individual, always open to feedback and new experiences in order to shape who I am.

I am an organized person, like a table of contents. Each Wikipedia page, regardless of the topic, is categorized in sections with different pieces of information. Whether it is through using color coded folders in order to keep my classwork neat or meticulously following deadlines in order to produce a yearbook, staying organized is important for me in my daily life. Having everything in order demonstrates an outlined way for me to go about each day. Staying organized lets me easily go about accomplishing various tasks and finding specific papers, folders, or items. Just as a table of contents allows readers to quickly find the information that they are seeking an answer to.

I am guided by curiosity. Born three months earlier than expected, I like to think that it is the curiosity inside of me that made me want to see the world quicker. That same curiosity that I believe to have guided me then is what helps to define me now. As with a Wikipedia page, further information on various topics is embedded within text. In the same way, I view my life as a journey of wonder and curiosity of what is to come. Just like reading when I stumble across a hyperlink attached to more information, I see my life as an article of daily activity with new adventures and events happening as I move through this road.

When it comes to reading for pleasure, I find myself gravitating towards constantly updating sources, such as developing news stories or daily newspapers. Inside of them I find opportunities to explore and always learn more. Through Wikipedia, I am met with a web of concepts and knowledge about nearly any topic imaginable. In having this companion, I see myself inside of it. Continuously shaping who I am through experiences of new people and previously unknown ideas. Taking in eras of my life and the events I encounter in an organized mind. And most importantly, I allow myself to drift along a lifelong voyage of wonder, guided by a current of constant curiosity.