Sunday, October 31, 2010
"Here at Harvard our students believe it is better to create a job rather than find one"
I just saw The Social Network movie for the second time…and I am still amazed at the insight and innovation Mark Zuckerburg had at such a young age. I am 26 and my whole college career I have been told and molded for this one point …to get a job. It is my senior year, and even though I have a career line up for myself...I am not sure that my college experience was design to allow me to obtain a job. What this have to do with technology and training? The title of this post is from the movie The Social Network which is an amazing quote from the President of Harvard. The IT industry has two folds…existing technology and cutting edge technology. However, there is also the idea of future technology which can come from existing or cutting edge. My training class instructor just gave us an assignment to research articles on m-learning and the pivotal aspect I learned from this whole experience is that the idea or concept of m-learning is still in its very early stages and it is evolving quickly plus the technology behind m-learning is wide open. A part of me wants to stop everything I have work so hard for and become a pioneer of technology…Microsoft was the biggest idea to hit the computer technology after IBM created the PC, and Facebook was the has been the next greatest thing since email to hit the Internet…what is next? Are there any more huge different ideas out there? Impact is the key indegredit to technology not the technology itself. I challenge every college student especially those who do not attend Ivy league Universities to create their next career rather than find their next career!
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I agree that most students are molded into what other people expect of them and what they should accomplish or what they should do. Instead of picking a career why not have the choice of creating your own. Mold yourself into what you want to be and do and not by anyone else's standards. Make your ideas work for you, you have plenty of them.
ReplyDeleteI agree that most programs are usually designed to mold students, but I think our program is a little different. Although I feel that our classes should go more in depth than they do, one great thing about our major is that we are given a foundation to build on. We are given basic information and we are allowed to go in any direction that we please. When we are assigned projects we are given the freedom to complete them with very little restrictions. It is very possible to explore and discover new technologies and perhaps create some of our own. I think our major supports innovation.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree! I was always taught that it is much more beneficial and promising to create your own career, rather than just joining someone else's company and building their dream. In my opinion, if you're going to go to college, it should not be to get a "JOB" but to actually master some type of art or craft that will assist you in building your own career. There are plenty more unique ideas and future technology that I definitely know will have such a great impact on society that it will make ideas like Facebook and the Internet look worth nothing!
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