It is quite amazing how much we don't consciously recognize in the world. Every day I am bombarded by hidden messages and ideals that advertising companies would like for me to believe. It is almost becoming difficult to understand who I am because of all the information that the media has presented to me about who I should be. This is a difficult battle that I have only begun with 3 and a half years of University ahead of me and only half a semester behind me.

How does the human society exist amoung each other? Do they exist in a rear-view mirror world as Marshall McLuhan lended to the public nearly 50 years ago. Or do they live as an extension of each other, creating new media to extend the human's ability to live. There are so many theories about how media affects our every day life that it is hard to decide for myself how I exist with the media.

I plan on being the media for a lot of my life, as a writer and possibly an editor one day, I hope to be one of those people who provide an extension to every day life. However, how do I want to be an extension? Do I want to be an extension here in Ontario and report on politics, or do I want to be an extension for Canada in Africa and help to explain how to remainder of the world lives.

There is so much to decide, decisions that are bigger than where to go to school and where to live next year. I have to decide who I am, where I want to be, and how I want to live.