My name is Forrest and this is the first school assignment I've done in 7 years, so please bare with me! My educational history starts in Kansas many decades ago, sometime in the early 1980's I started Kindegarten. Somehow, someway, I failed it. I guess I didn't like to share. Pretty soon my family and I "were not in Kansas in more Toto", and I was going to school in San Diego. I made it through Solana highlands, Earl Warren, and Torrey Pines. I went on to get a Poli Sci degree from UCSC, go slugs!
I was 18 when I got my first email address. I didn't like computers back then. I found them slow, boring, and confusing. But then again I was 18, last thing I wanted to do was be behind a computer. As computers became faster, information more readily available, and more people using them they became a neccisity. Today, I can talk to my Iphone and say, "Pizza, close" like a Geiko caveman and get a number within seconds. How perfect is that? I'd say I like Apples the best, they just are more user friendly and there applications are fun.
We read the College of Education Mission Statement aloud in class, and I have just read it again so that I can respond to the statments that speak to me. I would say that the whole entire statement speaks to me, I particularly like the part about "shared governance" and "social diversity". I have gone to many schools, had many jobs, and have read the mission statements of many institutions. In doing such I have noticed that often times there is a disconnect between many institutions and there practices. So far I have not been dissapointed with CSUSM, and I hope I am not. No, the mission statement had no bearing on my decision to go to CSUSM.
