Hello, my name is Branden Dodenhoff. I am Finance major at Siena College, and this will be my last class at Siena College before I graduate. I am currently Employed with Nationwide working 40 hours a week as a new hire Financial Representative. My first task working with Nationwide will be to pass the Securities Industry Essential Exam (SIE) and then the Series 6 exam. These are two important financial exams that I must pass to continue working with Nationwide.
For the discussion topic that we have in place I will not be focusing on my biological family/blood related family because I want to focus more on friends that have been in my life for some period now that have become part of my family. Cohan defines family has “Group of related people, bounded by connections that are biological, legal and emotion” (6) I disagree with this statement which is why I’m going to focused mainly on member outside my family that I consider family and give what I believe family really is to me.
I have attended Siena College for four years now and one phrase that you constantly hear people say is this is my “Siena Family”. Siena Family to me is defined as people coming together and building a trust and friendship that eventually lead to a group acting as a normal family would. You have member that are there to protect you, look out for you, be there for you when you are stressed out and people to build you up when you feel like quitting. You make ever last memories, and even get into arguments and disagreement.
Cohan then goes on to talk about personal family which she defines as “The people whom we feel related and who we expect define us as member of their family as well.” (7) My belief in what family is more closely related to this point of view. My freshman year roommate and my hall member have become so close over the past four year I consider them brother to me. My mother lives in Tennessee, so on short breaks I go over to my roommate’s house and his mother has stated to others that I’m like a second third son to them. This is just one example of how people at one point can be completely stranger to have such a strong connection that they now feel like that are all part of the same family.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQUlRQWgxMc The Video that I have shared related back to me and my Siena Family bonding over one similar interest. Since the start of freshman year at Siena College my friends and I have always bonded over a video game called Smashbros. We played this game throughout college and during the fall semester of Senior year, my housemate was joking around talking about creating a Siena College E-Sport Team. He eventually gained so much support that be Spring semester he created the Siena College Smashbros E-Sports team. My housemate Caleb held tournament and try-outs where another housemate of mine Martin and I were able to make the team along with 4 other members. We spend many hours practicing and training for tournaments and Finished 9th place Nationwide in a tournament. This video is just a simple clip that reminded me of the all binding we did as a group.
Sociology is defined as the study of society, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture of everyday life. I have to say that College is way different then high school not just because of the freedom, being away from your parents or even the difficulty of the classes, but by the relationship you form. In college people you are interacting with people on a much deeper level you can call someone you met a family member rather then someone you know for 4 years and went to high school with.
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