E-Portfolio!

Welcome! My name is Ashley Maynard and I am currently a student at The Pennsylvania State University. Here in Happy Valley I am pusuing a degree in Psychology B.S. and Sociology B.S. with a minor in the French Language. After completing my degree I hope to return to my hometown of Philadelphia, P.A. for graduate school. In the long run I see myself becoming a family and teen therapist in Philadelphia.

As a result of my first year here I have learned that there is an emense amount of information for me to learn about in this world. Also that there are many accomplishments to be had along my journey to graduation.

This E-Portfolio was created as a location to compile any works and accomplishments I achieve while contining my education, working towards my goals, and learning more each and every day.

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Immaturity at Penn State

This past week I had the unfortunate opportunity to overhear something that one cannot just un-hear. On Wednesday as I was walking to class the two guys in front of me were talking about Easter and being Catholic I was intrigued be as though I am excited for this holiday. Until I heard him say something along the lines of “I am going to celebrate Easter by watching a bunch of porn that shows girls wearing bunny costumes.” Now I hear a lot of crap from guys at this school that is disgusting and I just brush it off as guys being guys; it never really makes a difference in my day. But this made me frustrated angry and embarrassed (I attend a school where idiots like that share a classroom with me?)

This got me thinking about the way people use different rhetoric in different situation. I pray that he would never say something like that in an interview or during class but with his friends things like this is perfectly fine. This also shows how your rhetoric can make other people feel about you. After I heard that I automatically assumed that he was an immature idiot but in front of his mother or teacher he could easily change his word choice and appear as a mature intelligent young man and this is what we do every day. We assess the situation that we are in and change our rhetoric based on our audience. We have those that we do not mind looking stupid or mean in front of and those that we know we need to impress. I truly hope that everyone does not take it as far as this guy did, but we all change how we act and what we say the same way that he did.