First blog Entry

Topic: All about myself

I have started this blog for a class I am taking at Wells College that is aimed at integrating technology into the classroom. Our fist task is to write all about ourselves.

Past:
My name is Jessica Sterling. When I was born my mother made a list of the names of all the other girls my father knew at the time and none of those could be my name. My dad choose Jessica because that name was not on the list and because it is an Allman Brothers song. My last name is made up, because my parents were not married and neither of them liked their respective last names. I spent my childhood with my great grandparents, because my mother was only 17 and my father was in a band. Eventually my father would take custody of me, and his life style heavily influences who I am today, as I am a night person and I was raised with the only fashion rule my father has: black goes with everything!
Present:
At my fathers house I am an only child. At my mothers I have three half siblings: a 15 year old sister, a 6 year old brother, and a 2 year old brother. I love my brothers to death and I wish I could be with them more often. They have fueled much of my desire to work in the field of developmental psychology. I also love to take photographs and they are two of my favorite subjects.
As for myself; I love the color black, and hate the color yellow. I love music and concerts but hate loud noises and raised voices. I am rather withdrawn and contemplative and reflective, but eventually if you are around enough I will talk a mile a minute. I am loyal to a fault. I love to play video games. I am a psychology major because I find people fascinating and their discrepancies even more so. I minored in secondary education because the teachers I had in high school were so influential in my life and in shaping who I have become today that I wanted to be able to do the same for others. However Wells wont certify me, so I will probably end up teaching at the collegiate level instead, but my I am glad that I have taken the education classes because it gives me a background that I feel so many professors should have but are lacking. My other minor is in Math because I absolutely love math and the finality of it. I like that there generally is a right answer, and that is the answer, unlike psychology.
Future:
I hope to go to Suny Brockport next year to get my masters degree in psychology. From there I hope to go either to Columbia or NYU to get my doctorate. I eventually would like to teach full time at the collegiate level. I look forward to the day I own my own home and can raise my own family.