How Technology Affected My Life

Technology has definitely changed my life for the better, especially in recent years, in more than one way. At dive practice it has advanced to the point that were are able to watch our previous dives on a delayed live feed to a television. My coaches also use iPads to record dives and play them back in slow motion so that coaching can be more individualized. Not only has technology allowed me to better understand what my coach is coaching me on, but it has also helped me feel like I fit in to society somewhere. 

I attended The Lexington School for preschool through middle school, and lets just say that the people who attended there along side me are not exactly the people I relate to. I don't mean to be insulting to anyone who went there because I am still friends with many who went there and the experience was overall great, but a girl with colorfully died hair and a love of rock music coming from a solidly middle class family did not fit in well with wealthy, higher class folk.

Through the internet I was able to find that there were people out there that had similar interests to me and it helped me see that it was ok to just be me and not try to fit into somewhere. This was a big deal to me because for a while I was that toddler trying to fit the square block into a circular opening, only instead of a block it was how I dressed, how much make up I wore, what I ate, what books I read, and what music I listened too. To a middle schooler that had yet to experience a social scene out side of TLS this realization was life changing.

Coming to Henry Clay helped me further in this aspect, but it was technology that allowed me to surf the web was a gate way to seeing it was okay to be unique.