My First Blog

Hello! I was having trouble with my e-mail, configuring my UNE and g-mail accounts, so I had to start all over! So hopefully, this will be my final and official blogging site.
     My name is Amanda Monty---Mandy preferably---and this is my first blog! I am 21 years old and I am a recent dental hygiene graduate. I work at a pediatric dental office and will be returning to school in the fall to continue my education in hopes of getting my doctorate in education. My ultimate career goal is become a dean of a dental hygiene program.
   I would consider myself as a rather outgoing person. I talk...a lot...so I am told. I love the summer season the most, so currently I have been living outdoors doing whatever I can to keep busy and out of the house. Currently, I am working full-time and going to school part-time, so I have been pretty busy.
   I am looking forward to this class because I am excited to learn about different aspects of social networking and I am interested in seeing how I feel about them. I have never though of doing anything such as a blogging, simply because I am not one to share all of my thoughts of feelings over the internet. However, I feel that it will be an interesting experience and I hope to gain knowledge and connections with my classmates and the world.
    I did not have any trouble setting up my profile or finding a few people. However, as you may have noticed, I had trouble finding and starting this blog! Now that I have found it, I also found the layouts and everything else that comes with it, thank heavens. Although I thought I was doing pretty well with the site, now that two hours have passed and I am just now posting my first blog, I will have to admit that I had trouble navigating myself to the blogger page. My profile is set up and compete though! I chose my layout because I feel as though when you first enter my page, your eyes tend to fall towards the left. So I thought it would be a good idea to put my about me on the left, followed by my posts in the middle. I chose the color theme because I am very much an environment person and I believe that the environment you place yourself in reflects your daily mood. Although this is just a website background, my beliefs stand. When I found this color scheme, it relaxed my mood. Therefore, the choice was simple.
   After browsing around this site, I have come to the conclusion that blogging can be helpful in many ways. I always have had a rather negative outlook on them for no particular reason other than I have never actually given them a try! I think that in terms of my profession, blogging would be a positive way to stay connected with others who share the same interests as I do within the dental field. Perhaps I will come across dental societies or groups within this site and I will be able to learn from them through their posts and links.
    I was able to find the privacy settings, and for this site, I have made everything public. My reason for that is because that is the point of social networking! Also, because I am so unfamiliar with this site, I want to enable people, specifically my classmates, to find me easily and in return, share my posts and blogs with them easily.

    Have a wonderful day.