User:Kaitie Elaine

Little do most know
The user Kaitie_Elaine was born on April 24, 1995 at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, Michigan. She was born to Angela Parsons, daughter of Ralph and Julie Horton and she was now the youngest of three children. Her older brother and sister were between 7-9 years older than she which made growing up for the first few years of her life lonesome and boring. At age four, Kaitie_Elaine was blessed with a younger sister. This sister ended up being the only sibling Kaitie_Elaine grew up with because her older siblings left at young ages to live with their paternal guardian. After the birth of her sister, the days were no longer boring. There was never a dull moment, but the two were like day and night so there was a lot of fighting between the difference in personality. Kaitie_elaine moved around a lot growing up. She attended four elementary schools, two middle schools and then four high schools just in her freshman year. This resulted in culture shock and poor grades by the end of her eighth grade to freshman year. The last school switch allowed user Kaitie_Elaine to catch up on her grades and get back on track. Everything was starting to look up towards the end of her freshman year, it seemed to stay that way too until halfway through her sophomore year. This is when she met her what she thought at the time the boy of her dreams. The romance that started in the winter of 2010 turned colder than the frost on the window pane, snow on the ground, and ice in the ponds. He was far from dreamy, the boy had become a nightmare. Everyday she lived in fear, he was always accusing her of something new. Soon she stopped hanging out with her friends, going to school activities, or even leaving her house without him because of her fear. Six months into the relationship she finds out she's pregnant, worst scenario she could have been placed in. Until twelve weeks later when she's hospitalized because of a miscarriage. Soon after that the fighting between the two got worse, it got physical. Kaitie_Elaine stayed and ended up pregnant again nine months after the first pregnancy. Unfortunately, this pregnancy changed nothing between the two and she became another teen statistic of single mothers. This didn't break her spirit though, she was able to finish highschool and attend college full time. When Kaitie_Elaine became a mother her entire life changed. Her baby boy became her reason for living and gave her the strength she needed to leave his father and the motivation she needed to further her education to better his life. To this day, she is a full time student at the University of Pikeville and a loving mother to her only son. She plans to graduate from UPike with a major in Socialwork and move out west towards Arizona.

Lost Without Technology
My personal relationship with technology is a love hate relationship. I would be lost without my devices but at the same time I hate how much they control my life. When I was a young child, I didn't have apple devices and our internet was dial-up, so my mother wouldn't allow me on the computer long. Without technology in my life I had a sense of freedom but I noticed now I'm not outside as much and my life is on lockdown. A piece of me would love to have that freedom again but with the life style that I have I couldn't go without my devices.

I was introduced to technology by age nine. I've taken several educational courses in the understanding of technology and computer applications and I was in STLP, a student technology learning program. My closest device is my ipad. It goes everywhere with me. My second closest is my ipod 6th generation shuffle. I keep it with me most of the time to cope in social situations because I'm quite bashful and music helps me through it. My third closest device is my laptop, without it college would be 10x more complicated than it is now.

My views on Wikipedia...Well..
I personally am not a fan of Wikipedia. After this assignment I don't think any less of Wikipedia than what I did to begin with but at the same time I don't think any more of it either. I would rather use more reliable sources to cite from than Wikipedia and I would most likely avoid using Wikipedia for future projects. This is because there's too much time spent checking the sources of a source while on Wikipedia. I just wouldn't want to use that extra time when I could have my projects finished. However, I should mention that I no longer feel as if Wikipedia holds only useless information. It can be helpful at times but I still wouldn't recommend it for detailed research papers.