In ten years I will be...

hopefully reaping the benefits of working hard now. I hope to be well-entrenched in my dream job of Physical Therapist, being a community leader, and starting a family of my own. After graduating from Clemson in May of 2009, I plan to attend Graduate School and dig myself further into student loan debt while most of my friends start making what seems like a fortune to a person right out of college. While still in school, however, I hope to get my doctorate in Physical Therapy and start practicing shortly thereafter.
Ten years from now, I see myself raising a family and living a happy, yet simple life. I plan to have an 8-5 job working at an outpatient physical therapy clinic, hopefully self-owned one day, leaving all my work at the office, and not having to work any weekends. I see myself giving a lot to my family and community, because as my Dad says about community service, "You've got to give something back. If you don't have the time, give the money; and if you don't have the money, give the time." I hope to be watching my kids go to public schools, because I think private schools give children a skewed reality and slight them on some social skills necessary to make kids humble and accepting. I'm definitely going to be involved in my family a great deal, which is one of the reasons why I chose PT instead of going to med-school and becomming a doctor or a big businessman. One thing I've promised myself is that I won't be one of those parents glued to a cell-phone all the time whose business hours run into family time. Finally, I see myself with a dog. I never had a dog growing up, but I've always wanted one.
This is an image of what I see myself like in ten years, but I'll be the first to tell you there are a whole lot things that I want to do and see before becomming the home-body physical therapist.

Web 2.0

After watching the youtube video on the web, I think the title desribes the new and improved usability of the web. Originally complicated and hard to view, post, share, and change, the web oversimplifies everything down to a level where now kids can easily do things on the web their parents couldn't even think of doing. This affects the workforce in large part due to the widespread use and understanding of the web and a huge number of people being more web-savvy. People already in the workforce, our parents for example, are finding it tough to adapt to a more web-reliant culture where all the answers to anything and everything are found on the computer. I don't think the web will ever replace the old ways completely, but the world will become based mroe around the web, as it has in the past decade, which will force us to rethink some, but not all things in our lives.

Icebreaker

Hello bloggers. My name is Matthew Rinckel and I'm a Junior health science major from Lynchburg, Virginia. After I graduate, I hope to go on to physical therapy school somewhere and maybe one day own a practice, but for now, I am coaching a youth basketball and soccer team at the YMCA. As far as interests go, I just like being active and try to avoid spending my college days on a couch. I like to play soccer, beach volleyball, and swim, but I also enjoy hiking and canoeing. I am a huge classic rock fan; however, I have everything in my tunes library from Earth, Wind, and Fire to Journey. I hope that gives you a good description about me and I am looking forward to posting more as the semester goes on.