Direct TV Scholarship

The internet is an amazing thing as it enables one to communicate with more than a hundred thousand in a matter of seconds. However the development of social media and apples group messaging are not the things that have had a great (if significant at all) impact on my life. The true acceleration that has occurred with these developments is the capability to access information. At the push of a button one could be on a Chilean website that explains their current events in spanish, and with another click that page could be translated to English, French, or Japanese. For me being able to take classes online during the school year, and being given the access to several textbooks on my online high school site literally gave me the capability to explore the history of our world and our government. Websites like www.codecademy.com and www.brilliant.org have also given tremendous insite into how the world works, through logic and patterns. Exploring the world through shows like Earth have also been utilized by the world today, but simply watching life is not equal to the understanding which is given by reading about behaviors and learning about history. The internet gives us a link to an unfathomable amount of information and information is exploration.