User:Hannahspurlockupike

My name is Hannah Spurlock and I was born in Prestonsburg, Kentucky and am now attending the University of Pikeville which is about thirty minutes away from my house. I graduated from Prestonsburg High School last year and chose Upike ultimately because it was the closest University to home and I could commute. Through high school I played tennis for two years and then quit because i had to get a job. I started at McDonalds I believe my junior year, my mom was unemployed so I had to step up and take the role of breadwinner. This whole situation made high school rather difficult because many of my friends didn't fully understand why I couldn't go out and do the same things they did and I was always tired and behind in school work. Typically you would probably think this would make me resentful but it has made me stronger, more responsible and all together molded me as a person. Obviously this added some significant stress into my life and I moved in with my boyfriend when i was around sixteen. Since then I have moved up twice in jobs, going from McDonalds to Reno's Roadhouse and now I am at BillyRay's Restaurant in Prestonsburg and I couldn't be happier with my job at the moment. My long term boyfriend has been great the whole time, when I was sixteen I had no car or anything and he took me in and expected no rent and no gas money and it really helped me so much. I am still the major breadwinner when it comes to my mother and sister and provide for them whenever they need it and my boyfriend is still great to me but as I got older I started taking on more responsibilities like bills, pets, etc. It was hard adjusting to work and school at such an early age but it really made me the person I am today, all of the responsibilities made me grow up and start acting more mature. There are still some days where I find it really hard to manage school, work, and my personal life; and all I want to do all day is stay in bed, but I know that if I continue to work hard that I can continue to be successful and keep moving up from job to job. Adjusting to Upike was relatively difficult because I was always very shy in school and didn't really go out of the way to talk to people, but coming here has sort of changed that, considering everyone is so friendly. Working all of the time and commuting kind of limits the people I talk to because the only time I'm ever in Pikeville on campus are the days that I have class, so I try to talk to people that I have a few classes with or just anyone who talks to me in general since the only people I ever really talk to are the people I work with.

My relationship to technology
Ever since I was little I remember always having a computer in the house, and I've always played on one and browsed the internet, but I wouldn't consider myself great with technology. I can do all of the basic stuff, but if there is something wrong with a computer or internet connection you can count me out. The most I could probably do is unplug the router for ten seconds and then plug it back in. In high school I took a web page design class with my sister and we learned how to lightly use adobe photoshop to make mediocre graphics and some light html coding as well. It was considered a college credit, but I didn't really consider it college level. Even though I passed the class, I certainly do not think I could not design my own webpage. Well, I'm sure I could but it would be very unprofessional looking and the coding would be very outdated. My sister ended up taking more away from the class and being better at the coding, while I was better at designing things on photoshop and she then went on to take computer maintenance, however I was not interested enough to take both. While I think technology is a really great thing I know that I'm not necessarily great at it and leave that to the professionals because it can be a very hard thing to work with. Although I use my phone every single day, I still can't get used to how advanced it is compared to my former iPhone, I feel like there are a few tricks to using it and maybe there's something I don't know to working it, even though that sounds very silly, there are certain ways you can tilt or slide the screen and it does certain things, but I just feel like I haven't gotten it down yet.

What I think of Wikipedia
If there's something you don't know about, the first response you typically get nowadays is "google it," if you look at some of the first links to come up when you google a name, place, thing, etc. it will more than likely be a wikipedia link. The good thing about Wikipedia is that maybe if you have some spare knowledge you're wanting to share then you've reached the right place, which is also unfortunately the bad thing about it too. Anyone can sign onto Wikipedia and share knowledge and some people as you and I both know are not very reliable. It is very accessible which makes in very convenient. All through out high school I was told not to use Wikipedia because it is so unreliable, but I do now realize that if submitted by the right person it can be very helpful.