My name is Steve McNelly and I am an American Studies major at UMBC. I currently work part-time for Open Door Before and After School Child Care in Pasadena at Ft. Smallwood Elementary. The kids I work with are great and they really look up to me. I try to help them become better people and better athletes. I love to watch sports and play them as well. In high school I played two years on JV Basketball, one year for Varsity Football, and four years on the Varsity Golf team, where I was team captain my senior year. Watching sports and following my favorite sports teams is a passion of mine. I grew up watching the Baltimore Orioles every since I was three years old. However, my passion is football and the Baltimore Ravens. Every Sunday, I’m at the game tailgating with my friends and family or at my brother’s house watching the game on his HD television (I guess working for Comcast Spotlight has it advantages!). For all of the best Ravens coverage check out http://profootball24x7.com/. It’s a new website that my brother got me hooked on. Not only to they write about the Ravens, but they also sponsor Bart Scott’s radio show on Tuesday nights.
I am currently in the American Studies program to get my bachelor’s degree (finally) and pursue a career in sports talk radio. There are so many things I want to say about the various topics in sports. My girlfriend, friends, and family tell me how passionate I sound when I talk about sports, and they have encouraged me to follow my dreams. This class is part of my course requirement to graduate, but there is so much I want to get out of this class. I love the fact that we are using blogger.com. It is just a small example of the giant steps that we have taken in technology. All of our information is coming via the computer. We stay in constant contact with people through websites such as MySpace and Facebook. We e-mail funny videos and pictures and check our grades and assignments using Blackboard. I want to find out where technology stood hundreds of years ago. How did people communicate? How did they get their information? If I am going to pursue a career in media, I need to know what direction we are going in. For now, it looks like the future is blogging and the internet. Who knows what will happen in the next ten years with technology. Whatever direction we take, I cannot wait until the entire world hears what I have to say.
I am currently in the American Studies program to get my bachelor’s degree (finally) and pursue a career in sports talk radio. There are so many things I want to say about the various topics in sports. My girlfriend, friends, and family tell me how passionate I sound when I talk about sports, and they have encouraged me to follow my dreams. This class is part of my course requirement to graduate, but there is so much I want to get out of this class. I love the fact that we are using blogger.com. It is just a small example of the giant steps that we have taken in technology. All of our information is coming via the computer. We stay in constant contact with people through websites such as MySpace and Facebook. We e-mail funny videos and pictures and check our grades and assignments using Blackboard. I want to find out where technology stood hundreds of years ago. How did people communicate? How did they get their information? If I am going to pursue a career in media, I need to know what direction we are going in. For now, it looks like the future is blogging and the internet. Who knows what will happen in the next ten years with technology. Whatever direction we take, I cannot wait until the entire world hears what I have to say.
3 comments:
Hey Steve,
I used to work at a before and after school program and i loved it. It actually made me CONSIDER teaching. Although it doesn't seem like teaching is what I want to do now, just being around the kids always brought out the inner child in me. Which was good and something light to fit into my hectic schedule. Good luck with this semester and take care!
Both my brother and this year my little sister both go to Ft. Smallwood Elementary. Its great that you work there. I probably live less than a mile away. Any ways, its hard to admit being an Orioles fan after their recent games but I am also a fan.
It's really cool that you volunteer for kids at an elementary school. I've mentored for kids in the Special Education department at Hillcrest Elementary since 1999 (Hillcrest is also the school I used to go to). Although I don't have as much time now as I did a few years ago, I like to go whenever I have free time. I play video games, board games and sports with them, and I also help them with their schoolwork as much as I can. As for the Ravens and the passionate feelings for them, that makes two of us. I'm a DIE HARD Ravens fan, and I'd love to go to another tailgating party AND game soon!!!
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