Welcome back! Hope everyone had a good weekend. Beating state definitely helped brighten up my Saturday just a little bit. I also want to take a moment to mention Tyler Sash. The win this weekend was for him and he will always be remembered as a part of the Hawkeye family.<\/p>\n
Whether you prefer to up a Yak, favorite a tweet, like a Facebook post, or press that cute little heart on Instagram, we all have at least one guilty pleasure when it comes to social media. For me? I\u2019m on all of them which can definitely be a distraction when I want to be productive and get homework done. So what does this have to do with my newly college life? More than you might think. I don\u2019t know what it is like for everyone else, but social media is a huge part of my social life, I mean let\u2019s be honest if you didn\u2019t post about it then really it didn\u2019t happen. Just like every other teenager on the planet I have to share something the minute it happens just so everyone knows how much fun I am having. It\u2019s a constant need to impress people. A few days ago my Rhetoric teacher asked us to think about what we believe we are supposed to get out of college. Almost all of the posts had to do with living up to the standards being brought on by social media. And it got me thinking, why does our generation feel a need to impress everyone with our daily activities? After we left class I continued to think about myself and realized I was just as guilty as all the other teenagers out there. During OnIowa I spent the entire time SnapChatting just make sure people knew I was enjoying my new college. At the first football game I posted multiple photos on Facebook so people could see that I had school spirit. All I wanted to do was prove to people that I was having a better time than they were. What I have now realized is that there isn\u2019t a social standard you have to live up to. You don\u2019t have to be going out every Friday night and posting every Saturday morning. People don\u2019t need to know everything about everything. College is finally where you get to experience anything you want without judgement. My goal, if anyone wants to join me, is to start putting my phone down more often and actually start making memories for myself instead of photos for a whole bunch of people I\u2019ve never actually met. You don\u2019t have to live up to the customs of college created on social media because there really aren\u2019t any. Enjoy these four years because they are the only four you get. Now I\u2019m going to go tweet about my new blog post going up because if I don\u2019t then did any of this even happen? Kidding.<\/p>\n
If you feel the same way chat with me down below in the comments section. I would love to know I\u2019m not the only one feeling the pressure on social media.<\/p>\n
Until next time.<\/p>\n
Go Hawks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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