Music Monday!

Happy Monday! I love music it can definetly change the mood of one's day! I will try to do the Music Mondays weekly so here is the very first one!

Nneka-Shining Star

Networking: An Experiment

  It's raining like a hurricane today. I didn't even know it was raining this bad until I got outside, but  since I woke up I had this icky feeling that rainy days give me.  Got to love Florida! Anyway, I've been thinking about what the lady at the career center at my school told me. I went in trying to figure out what internships I could apply for, and she went on about networking.

   I'm shy as I've said plenty times before. I rarely go up to people and just start talking to them. When I'm in class I subconsciously sit in the back where no one is sitting next to me. Sometimes, I feel like I should just introduce myself to someone...however that may just be too spontaneous for me.

  This advisor told me she had a challenge for me. She told me to go up to three people you've never met and introduce yourself. I laughed while she said it. She tried to encourage me and told me to just go for it. Now, that was like three weeks ago, and uh...yeah...I didn't do it.

    Spring break is the week after this one, so this week I will try and take on the challenge. I will just have to look for someone who won't be mean or laugh at me or whatever. It shouldn't be this mind wrecking, but it is for a shy girl. I am just so used to the same familiar interactions. However, I know that in order for me to get a career after I graduate  I will have to network.

SO wish me luck, people! I need to set a date for me to do it, maybe Wednesday. Yeah...well anyway I need to get back to my homework, I have an exam to study for now. Peace!

Obsession with Extroversion and Introversion

 

   I remember when  I was in high school and I found out about the term introversion. The definition of "describing one's interest to itself," (freedictionary.com) described me to a tee. When I learned that I was introverted, and not some weird person who cannot  showcase an overly aggressive personality, I had a sense of relief.  I kept annoying my family talking about introversion, took the Myers-Brigg Type Indicator test (INFP baby!), and read blogs about introversion while acting out my introversion. Most of the articles on these blogs were about introversion vs. extroversion. How introverts were more intelligent, and they would list all the famous and successful people who are introverted. I didn't mind all the praise, because in this society it's an unwritten rule to be more extroverted.

  When I read another introversion article at Clutch Mag, I asked, "is it too much?" I think that it's great to know what type of personality you have as it can answer a lot of questions. However, in the past I would try to make career decisions, and  determine my college major  based on my personality. I would also make social decisions based on my personality, more specifically my MBTI, and it was just self-restricting. I told myself I couldn't do this or I am better  at this. What happened to "you can do whatever you put your mind to."

  I am a Telecom major and while I like production, and behind the scenes, my mind daddles with the fact that I could be the next Tamron Hall, or Alicia Quarles, heck even Oprah Winfrey! Just because I am introverted, doesn't mean I cannot do extroverted things and vice versa.

   It's coming to the point where introversion and extroversion are becoming labels that limit people. Not one or the other is better. It's just a personality trait!