Business case for diversity

For my diversity event, I went to the “Business case for Diversity”. I learned a lot from this speaker on how diversity within a work place will better the company as a whole. I thought his research was kind of cool on how he went into a business and formed two groups’ people. One group was the eight people with the highest IQ, and then the second group was a mix of different IQ’s. He had each group do the same project and the outcome showed that the diverse group actually outperformed the group with the highest IQ’s.  The reason is because the group with the highest IQ’s was really smart in what they do, but when it came to this project some of the lower IQ people could do other things really well. So when you add diversity to a group, it will make the group perform so much better because each person has their own trades of expertise. He gave an example of you got to think of yourself as a tool box, and the tools inside show what you have to offer. I like to think that the two groups were their own tool boxes and in the one tool box all there was eight hammers and in the other tool box there was a whole assortment of tools. Which tool box would you take to fix a car?
                My dad and my uncle farm together and it seems like they are always disagreeing on what should be done. So once when I was younger I asked why they still farm together when they are always disagreeing. My dad told me that when in a partnership you should be able to disagree with each other because if everyone had the same idea what good would it be to be in a partnership, if no one was going to be able to bring in better or new ideas. I thought this was a good example because it shows how if you have a diversity of ideas you will be able to have things work in a more efficient way and have fewer mistakes.

Week of Twitter

Who knew this day would come that people would trade livestock, create friendships, or even find the certain someone over the internet? I always thought that these social networks were crazy ideas that I swore I would never use. Now you can find me on facebook or even at http://twitter.com/Ryanschneider48.
                This week of twitter has been quit the learning experience. I have never seen myself as much of a computer whiz, but compared to my dad I am a genius when it comes to a computer. My life in social networks started when I was in high school and my younger cousin thought that I needed to get facebook so she set me up with an account. For about a year I hardly even got on because I didn’t know how to use it and I pry only accumulated five posts. Then I found facebooks chat option, and learned that I could talk instantly with any of my friends that were currently online. This is started to get me on to facebook more often. Now that I am at college it seems like I am always going to my facebook account mainly because I tend to have more free time in the day and I still want to get on and see who I can chat with back in my home town, also facebook has let me keep in touch with my friends from high school that have went off to different colleges.  Now I thought this blog was suppose to be about twitter, so when it came to my week of twitter it became very hard for me to switch to another social network because it takes me so long to get use to and grow accustom to.  So this week was kind of hard for me to get figured out, but it all went nice smooth so I guess it wasn’t all that bad.

Me at my best

Everyone has some moment in life where they are at their very best. This could be the time that they helped a younger sibling out or just getting an “A” on their chemistry final. My time of being my very best would have to be when I won the Iowa State Fair hog show.
                Some people think that showing hogs just consists of walking a pig around in a ring for a judge to look at, well they are very wrong. My time of being my best isn’t the half of an hour that I spent in the show ring but it was the three months of preparation that I had to put in to my pig to get him the best of his ability. This preparation consisted of training my pig to show by walking him around in the front yard for a half hour every night, washing and brushing him, and feeding him a balanced diet. While I was going through this experienced I felt like it was a lot of hard work that I was doing for nothing, but when it came time for the state fair, it paid off with me accomplishing something I thought I would never do.
                This experience of me being my best showed me that with a lot of hard work anything can be accomplished. This ties into my first college semester because I thought that I could just slide by and get an “A” in every class, but reality hit me pretty hard and I learned that I was going to have to work for it and let my hard work pay for its self in accomplishments.

Why you should be on time?

Why you should be to class on time? This is a question asked by every teacher, and there is a different answere from every student. I think you should be on time so that class can start as schedualed and run efficently. If over half of the class isn't there on time the teacher cant start the class. If you are the student that isn't getting to class on time you could be holding the rest of the class behind or you could be missing som important information if the teacher decides to go on with out you.

     For many years Beloit College has made a mindset list that reflects to the age of college freshman with historical events. Beloit's list contains of changes in the lives of how they get the time of day to how they see a person of american history.
     The first statment on the list was the one that really got me to me, I thought that I was the only person in my class or even in the whole world that couldnt write any more then my name in cursive. Some others on the list that I thought were very accurate would consist of, the nation has never approved of the job Congress is doing, it seems to me that when ever there is national news on they are always complaining about something that congress is doing or how a senator is acting out of hand. Another that I thought was very accurate was email is just too slow, and they seldom if ever use snail mail, email to me is just a big pain to deal with even though it can be very useful at times.
     There are a few statments on the list that I find inaccurate, like having hundreds of cable channels but nothing to watch has always been routine, I disagree with this because I have never had cable tv and I have talked to many people that said they have never had cable tv either.
     The Beloit College has put together a real good list of statments that tells how college freshman view the world. The mindset list put to geather a group of accurate and some that I would consider not so accurate statements.