MLA Works Cited Page - Sydney Norris

MLA Works Cited Page 

When you purchase the Microsoft Word, itself it will format the paper for you. I believe that can be the problem for a lot of people today. When you are used to using that feature in word throughout high school it can give you a challenge in college. The reason I say this is because in college they provide you to a limited access to Microsoft Word. In that limited access you do not receive the MLA formatting feature. Therefore, you must put the paper in MLA format on your paper on your own. Applying the MLA format, yourself is not hard. The struggle I have with MLA format is remembering every part that makes the MLA format. For example, remembering the certain font, certain text size, doubled space, and so much more. Another trouble I can have with MLA is finding the areas on Microsoft Word of where to insert certain details. 

College Students and Everyday Life - Sydney Norris

College Students and Everyday Life 

In high school I heard just about every day of my senior year how “college is going to be harder.” In the statement “College students often struggle to balance their schoolwork with the demands of everyday life” is true to a certain extent. College material itself is not hard. It is the responsibility of doing the work in a certain amount of time that makes it hard. For example, I have a part time job and do college work full time. With working four days a week, having class 3 days a week, with two hybrid classes, two regular classes, and trying to spend quality time with family/friends. The part that makes college such a struggle is all the work we receive to do not in class but in our own time. The question is how we find time with all we have going on. For example, in high school we had eight hours a day to go to school and get our work done there. Now with so many things going on at once we do not have eight hours a day to give to college schoolwork. Another example is before I had a job and went to college I did not struggle to get my college work done because I had plenty of time on my hands.   

Social media? - Sydney Norris

Is social media detrimental?  

Is social media being detrimental to our face-to-face interactions with strangers? Social media does lessen face-to-face interactions which can cause people to not know how to communicate in person. When you do communicate in person you can get to know a person based off appearance, how they carry themselves, and body language. My younger brother Dylan he constantly stays in his room and plays video games. I believe this is hurting his way to be able to talk to people he does not know. I can tell this because if it is anyone besides his mom, he has trouble carrying on a conversation. Dylan does not know how to speak to a person in different tones or what to say to a person if he says something that makes them mad. Being constantly on social media or video games he thinks he does nothing wrong because not seeing other people doing things different or better ways makes him think his way is the only way.  

Do you have a best friend? -Sydney Norris

What should a best friend be? 

Throughout my whole entire life, I have had so many friends come and go. One friend I have had that constantly shows me what real friendship is Madalyn. She shows all the traits of not only a best friend but a true friend! A best friend is honest with you about everything to a fault. They will tell you what you want to hear even when you do not want to hear it. Best friends never leave each other out! On top of that best friends should always tell each other everything! My best friend Madalyn shows this every day! She never has lied to me about anything. There have been times when she has told me things I do not want to hear and tells me when I'm wrong. Madalyn constantly makes sure everyone is felt wanted even if that means she is put to the side. Madalyn is a constant example of not only a best friend but a true friend as well. I am so thankful to call her my best friend!