User:Rmarmol1

'''Richard Marmolejos'

•	Who are you? What is your identity? I am who i believe i need to be in order to effectively navigate through the obstacle course that is life. I am considerate and understanding to a reasonable degree. I make sure that my friends and loved ones, are at least satisfied with the situations of their everyday life.

My identity is composed of several elements; my ethnicity, nationality, and my day to day activities. I identify as a Dominican-American; Dominican I list first as a form as respect for my parents who were born and raised in the Dominican Republic. I am American because I was born and raised here for most of my life, here in the USA is where I am most comfortable because this is what I know. I have traveled to my families "mother-land", its very beautiful, a paradise; in my opinion it is a very nice place to visit but I would not want to live there. I am also a person of color and there for I identify as one. However, my mother taught installed in me the idea of colorblindness, to see people for who they are and not what they look like. I identify myself as a football player, I played Junior Varsity and Varsity in high school. I love getting on the field with my friends and test our skills against each other; our strength, speed, wits, and ability to work as a team. I love the feeling I get when I am out on the field while its raining and snowing; it feels like I ma playing against nature her-self, I feel so alive. I am the Financial Vice President for the Student Association at Binghamton University (FVP), I have to identify as the FVP because if has become a part of my identity and I do not mind that is has. I took up this position in order to make a difference and help maintain a system which is so crucial to the continuation of a social life here at Binghamton University. I love that I am able to have a hands on approach with all the 160+ groups that exist here at Binghamton University.

•	How has technology changed your life? Technology has considerably changed my life, I say this because I have become very dependent on electronics, such as my cell phone and computer (mostly because of internet). I find myself text messaging my friends constantly, accessing the web and playing games. I know my cell phone is a big part of my life because if my battery is dead on my phone I do not really want to do much; especially if I know that I will not be able to charge my battery for hours. I have a flat screen TV with surround sound in my apartment and lots of DVDs; I'll just sit there for hours and watch movies, while I play with the surround sound features.

•	How do you most effectively communicate? I definitely communicate most effectively via my cell phone, because I am so busy all the time that I sometimes do not have time for face to face interactions, which I would prefer. I love to talk to my family and friends and my cell phone helps with that a lot. •	How do you least effectively communicate? The least effective form of communication for me is e-mail, I find it so impersonal in terms of space and time. Instant messaging, text messaging, and phone calls are more personal because the timing is nearer, more in the present. E-mails can take hours, days, weeks, and even months to to receive a response if a person does not check their e-mails.

•	How does context affect your responses to the last two questions? It depends on the situation, some forms of communication are most effective in different scenarios. For example if I am in class or in a meeting I can't really answer my phone and have a conversation when my attention is required in the classroom or the meeting; its rude and dis-respectable. In this case text messaging or instant messaging would be a more effective form of communicating because there is a smaller chance of interrupting.