final blog

As a senior graduating in August, I have looked back at the classes I have taken the past four years and am glad to see the influence they have in my life. Communication skills are a necessity for people in the work place and in their everyday lives. In the list of traditional responses, I have found that I have used them when communicating to friends. I have a friend that has the same boy drama every week. After so much, its hard to keep listening to her. I will admit, I have used the ignoring response. But as talked about in class, sometimes it may be ok to use those responses. Reasurrance obviously isn't the correct thing to use when someone's father died, but it seems to me people say things like "it will be ok" because they really don't know what to say. This last class discussion has helped me to pick out my situations and know the correct time and place for different responses.