My interview with Jessica Garcia

The person that I interviewed was Jessica Garcia. She was born in Santa Barbara, California. At the age of nine, she had moved to Fresno with her parents.  A couple years later her parents had divorced when she was 14. She decided to move back with her father. When she had turned 16, she was living on her own and dropped school as well. Jessica's motivation to attend college is to study to become a dental hygienist and to support her son. She goes to school Monday through Thursday. On Fridays, she spends her time doing homework, and on the weekends she spends her time with her son. She balances all three family, work, and school. Her mother helps her out watching her son. When Jessica goes to school, her son also goes to school at the child development at Oxnard College for convenience. Jessica described herself as hard, closed off, and bitter. In about five years, she sees herself working full time as a dental hygientist and paying off her bills. Her motto for succeeding school is"nothing worth having ever comes easy." A couple things that she likes about Oxnard College is their programs, such as EOPS, CAL, and being able to talk to the counselors. She believes that the college could improve is with the financial aid office and the student business center. Throughout her college experience, the biggest surprise that has come her way was how smart she really can be.

Text Your Life Away

This generation, texting is the new form of communication with friends, colleagues, parents, and significant others. I’m amazed at the age group that text, its from little kids in grade school to grandparents. You don’t catch many people talking on the phone now days, it’s more like texting. Some people are addicted to texting. Every time they hear that ring or buzz go off, they check it immediately. From sending a text or receiving a text, it’s a big distraction with school. Many students don’t even pay attention in class because they’re so glued to their phone. I have noticed that texting has a big effect on people’s social and communication skills. It happens all the time, people try having conversations with another and they completely ignore them because they’re so caught up with their phone. Texting has its own kind of language, such as abbreviations, smiley faces, and other symbols.  A big issue about texting is don’t text and drive. As you seen on the commercial, “ No text is worth dying over”. There have been many accidents involved with people texting while driving. I will admit I am guilty of texting and driving, but its addiction that I have with my phone. I personally love to text because you have more privacy and it’s easier.

Reality Show

Reality TV seems to be the popular TV shows to watch. Many of these reality stars are being famous for being on a dating show, or their life in Hollywood. When you think of reality you think its real, but 95% of these shows are made up drama. If you go behind the scenes of some of these shows you’ll understand that they’re all made up and fake. Every reality show has some drama in it just to catch your attention.

When I do have the time to watch TV; I watch mostly reality shows. I’m not going to lie, that’s all I watch on TV. One of my favorite shows right now is Keeping up with the Kardashians, The T.O. show and Chad Ocho Cinco. My dad asks me all the time “why do I watch these shows?” I don’t really have a good answer to it, but I enjoy watching famous peoples lives. The eye catching of these shows is all the drama. Who doesn’t love drama? It also catches a lot of people’s attention with the latest gossip on celebrities. I personally enjoy watching what these people are up to, the things they do, their lifestyle, and the way they act. I do get addicted to watching these reality shows because it always ends on suspense. The producers are very smart because they show a preview of the next episode and makes you want to watch the next week.

I began watching reality shows since high school. I would love to watch Laguna Beach and the Hills. I thought it was the coolest reality shows ever just because these people that were in it were the same age and had the same high school drama as my friends and me. With an exception they were on TV for it. I always made sure I stopped doing whatever I was doing just so I can catch the episode. My eyes were pretty much glued to the TV. Reality shows are very famous now, because a lot of young teens and adults are interested in watching. They come out with a new reality show every month because it’s making them money.

 Reality shows do have an effect on me, because I start to become very materialistic when I watch a celebrities lifestyle. I start to become less appreciative and want all the things they have. Most importantly I want to live the same lifestyle their living in.  It does have an effect on society because most of it is not real. People are so wrapped up into these shows just to watch about other people’s lives. We should be entertained by our own lives. We shouldn’t take the time out of the day to watch someone’s lives, but were caught up in it. The media is a bad influence on drugs, sex, and alcohol. A lot more kids these days watch these reality shows, but it’s our decisions on what we do. I don’t entirely blame the media, because it’s our parenting and decisions on what we watch,