Diversity

I attended the GO Diversity event directed on Wage Equality on October 5th. I agree that wage equality shouldn’t be an issue between gender, sexuality, race or ethnicity. However I am a full believer in that if you have worked for skills and decided to give an effort to further your education, than you should be rewarded for your further knowledge.

When we first talked about Diversity in our recitation, we were all asked what we thought of when we thought of the word diversity. Myself, being the farm kid I am, ” Diversified Livestock” came up. It may seem juvenile, but look at it closer. On a diversified livestock operation ( the world) , all of the animals are fed and watered in equal care by the farmer ( aka our Father). They are all very different, but the ox/ cattle pull the plow, the horses pull the carriage, the sheep are used for wool, and the chickens for eggs. Diversity is a good thing and if every part of the farm works together, and doesn’t think they are superior to each other, then we achieve something greater for everyone, not just ourselves. It works the other way around too, if the cattle don’t help plow, the others are out of grain for food, the horses don’t provide for the farmer, then the farmer wouldn’t have any way to provide for the others. I know it’s an odd combination, but we are all diversified in how we think of diversity 😉

Have a great week!

 

Mikala 🙂

One Word. Six Letters. Whole Lot of Meaning.

One Word. Six Letters. – Mikala? Alexis? Denney? Well all three of those work, but I’m thinking Hixson. What does being a Hixson mean to me? Sure it’s being paired up with two awesome peer mentors, and an even better group ( Nobody has anything on Group 4), but it means something much more than that.  There’s someone who live exactly 1,452.4 miles away who believes in me. That someone is Christina Hixson herself. Sure she is paying for half of my tuition, as well as 99 other freshman, and 300 other students at Iowa State, but to me, the money isn’t anything. It is the fact that someone who barely  knows me has faith in me, and faith in my goals that I want to achieve. Christina doesn’t know that I fell in love with bovine embryo transfer on June 16th,2012 after looking through a microscope of blastocycsts, but she believes in how not only myself, but today’s generation will change the world, in a positive way. Think about it, Christina has enough faith for 100 of us freshman, 400 Iowa State Students a year, and she has been doing this for  over 20 years. That’s not only A LOT of money, but that’s the kind of faith that I want to have for the younger generation, and for them to be as excited for their goals as I am for mine.

Have a great week!

– Mikala 🙂