*HA HA....I'M DONE!*

...but since YOU will have to take this class I guess I should give you some friendly words of advice. The class is wonderful and an excellent learning experience for your future in the workplace. You will learn many things that will make you stand out to potential employers while gaining worthwhile experience.

Our class had the opportunity to work with a homeless shelter called the Anderson Sunshine House to help them create a website to provide more information about the efforts they are putting in to reduce homelessness in Anderson County. Not only did I receive a lot of information about how I could get involved with the shelter, but I also gained excellent knowledge on how to create and maintain a website.

Coming into the class you should have an open mind. This will allow you to come up with many different ideas that could make the project all that it can be and then some. The class will not stress you out, but make sure you stay aware of your deadlines. Due to the fact that a lot of assignments must be submitted online, you should start ahead of time so that you can contact Mrs. Rogers about helping rectify the problem. This way you will not have problems when the due date arrives.

I thoroughly enjoyed the class and I learned TONS of information! I hope you have as wonderful of an experience as I did! :)

I would just like to leave you with a poem called "Within You Is The Strength To Meet Life's Challenges!" by Lisa Wroble.

"You are stronger than you think,
remember to stand tall.

Every challenge in your life
helps you to grow.

Every problem you encounter
strengthens your mind and your soul.

Every trouble you overcome
increases your understanding of life.

When all your troubles weigh
heavily on your shoulders,
remember that beneath the burden
you can stand tall,
because you are never given
more than you can handle...
and you are stronger than you think."

The Tragedy at Virginia Tech

The events that occurred at Virginia Tech was horrifying and tragic. I do not completely think there are ways to completely eliminate things like this from happening but I do believe people should pay more attention to the potential warning signs. I would prefer to be more safe than sorry. Someone may have felt they would have been making too big of a deal if they were to let the proper authorities know but you should always report something that makes you feel uncomfortable.

Every college campus has there rules about guns on campus, but we have seen that there are ways around those regulations. In order to make situations like this occur less often, I just believe that campuses should actually enforce the rules and regulations they already have and ensure students that reporting strange activity is okay. As I said before, it is better to be more safe than sorry. I personally already take certain precautions when I am walking around by myself on campus but I know there are probably some warning signs I may be missing. You can just try to be more aware of the things going on around you.

My prayers go out to all those that lost a loved one, friend, professor, etc. in the massacre and I pray with all my heart that something like this may never happen again.

Moving along...

We are moving along quite nicely with the Anderson Sunshine House project. We are currently in the stages of finalizing a potential website for Beth Cribbe.

As a group, we will be working on ways to make the website the best that it can be. Beth Cribbe liked our design the best, so we will be incorporating the best points of every one's website design into our own. Personally, I will be working on finding the homelessness rates of upstate South Carolina and specifically Anderson County. Other than that, I will be helping the group in any other areas necessary so that we can make the website the BEST that it can be!

As we begin to meet next week, I will have a better idea of what I will be doing to help out with website.