Rosa Saucedo, COMM 101, Introduction to Communication Studies, Fall 2012, Section 2
Hi! My name is Rosa Saucedo and I am a third year at San Jose State University
My attraction to communication studies has its roots in my sophomore year while I was in a comm 20 public speaking class. My professor was Nita George and she made the class fun and I actually learned a lot about how to lessen my nerves as I went up to give speeches. Before this class, I would have never thought about being a communication major. I thought, “I’m shy. I can’t do all that communication major stuff.” Thankfully, thanks to this professor I finally decided in which direction I wanted to take my college career.
I began taking more communication courses and then had a performance class with the professor Marjorie Hazeltine, which definitely gave me much more confidence. We would do random skits and act out things every time we had class. I loved it and it helped me come out of my comfort zone. I then decided to declare the major.
I also feel like my current job has played a huge factor in why I believe communication is the most important thing to know. I work at In N’ Out and this job is ALL ABOUT communicating. When I first started, I was still in the process of testing out communication courses. With every position at this job, you communicate. You communicate with your co workers and with the customers of course. I learned a lot from this job like that I love to communicate. Their system of communication during lunch rushes and they way the give feedback taught me a lot about the importance of my major.
I see communication as a way of getting along with others, a personality. I see it as a system that once practiced, becomes easy no matter what background you come from. There is always a right way to communicate in my opinion. A person can say just about anything that’s on their mind and it’s just a matter of HOW they say it.
As a communication scholar I am primarily interested in using my communication skills to help out others. My career path in communication is not something I have determined yet, but I see myself working around different people everyday. I think diversity is really important in communication.
Communication is such a fascinating subject to me and it’s something that teaches you new things everyday. I am very interested in how different cultures communicate and how it has changed over time. Technology in our present world is one of the most popular ways of communication and I would like to learn more about why we don’t stop depending so much on technology if we know how negative it is to our personalities.
If I were to choose between being an interpretivist or being more of an objectivist, I would definitely fall more back on seeing things in an interpretivist way. I do believe that you should be able to prove theories and statements, but I also believe that things change everyday. If something is proven scientifically, it does not mean that the next day it will remain the same. I think that opinions matter and that everybody sees things differently based on their own individual experiences. There are always going to be two sides to everything and the interpretivist views seem more open to diversity.
