I am Paul Wysocki, and I'm currently a super senior here at Cal State San Marcos. For those of you who don't know what a super senior is, then I shall explain: I've just begun my 2nd year as a senior, and my 6th year as a college student (I started at Palomar Community College my senior year of high school). I've lived in Oceanside for the last 18 years, spending most of those years in the Oceanside school district in elementary school, Jr. High, and High School. After that I went to Palomar for a whopping three years, then transfered to CSUSM where I've been for the last 3 years.
My entire family has been a "Macintosh" family since as long as I can remember, though beyond using the internet and opening new files, my computer expertise is proficiently lacking. I do use the computer everyday, though usually just to go on facebook, check the news, write about the news on facebook, and then check the news again. Besides being able to go online, which is a highly impressive skill in of itself, I'm somewhat of an old-timer when it comes to technology: I refuse to use online banking and still prefer to physically go to the bank instead, it takes me hours to make any sort of powerpoint presentations, and I still get so frustrated at Microsoft Word that I scream profanities that no schoolchildren should hear. Though I am prone to purchase plenty of random items on Amazon.com whenever I get the urge. I don't know what type of Microsoft Office I use most. Sorry.
After having read the COE Mission Statement, I think something that jumped out at me was "life-long learning", mostly due to only being 22 years old, and having spent almost my entire life learning in a public school system. But besides being in school or not, we as people are always and will always learn something new. An obvious reference right now would be to quote the old cliche "You learn something new everyday". This is true because no matter how old we are, and whether we're still in school or not, we're always learning. We learn from anyone and everyone, anything and everything, from our teachers, our peers, and our family. Oh, and television.
