Peace out

Hey again. Since this final blog is supposed to be a comparison of the first blog, my first blog titled What Up is located below.

Hello everyone I'm Jake. I am a senior in high school. I currently live with my mom, dad, and sister and I plan on attending college next year. So who am I really? Well, the person I am today is made up of everything I come in contact on a regular basis. My major influences are my parents, teachers, co-workers, friends, and other family members. I am also influenced by the media, as is most everyone living in this deindividualizing society we call The US. Anyways, besides that I really enjoy spending time with friends, weather I am at a party, just at a friends house, or even playing sports. Oh yeah, I really enjoy playing sports. I am on an intramural basketball team and I also play pick up games with friends of football, ultimate Frisbee, hockey, and I golf occasionally. Music is a BIG part of my life. I love listening to music, in fact I am listening to music right now. I listen to all sorts of music, rock to rap, specifically jam rock, classic rock, some alternative, hip hop, and rap. Other than that, I currently have a job at The UPS Store three days a week. I have had two other jobs prior to my current, one at my fathers office working in the warehouse and the other at Potbelly Sandwich Co. That is my life in a nutshell, of course their is more depth to me but all other detail will have to be uncovered in future blogs.

After taking sociology, almost everything I come into contact can be viewed with a sociological mind. When I meet new people I can understand why they have different morals and act differently and it is usually because of where they are from and how/who they were raised by. So anyways my final blog...

Hey, I'm still Jake. I'm still a senior (not for long) and I still live with my Mom, Dad, and Sister. I still believe that the person I am today is made up and influenced by friends, family, teachers, co-workers, and other people I come into contact with. Of course, the media has a huge influence on my life as it does on most people. Culture, race, and social class also shapes who I am now, because I live the same culture, I am the same race, and I still belong to the same social class that I started in. This is because those are the groups I started in, the people I come into contact with are part of those groups, and most people don't change groups. There is however, deviance, which is the idea of doing something that is labeled different or even wrong. Now, this may be a stretch, but I believe that attending college next year is deviant. I believe this because, I am going to The University of Kansas and there will be a different culture and different "groups" there that I will need to adapt to and learn from. In a sociological mind, going away next year will add a completely new shape to my world and the way I live. Anyways, sociology was one of my favorite classes all through high school so it is sort of upsetting to see it come to an end. I will remember the great lessons learned and always think with a sociological mind. Good bye.