Sunday, May 24, 2015

About Me

       Hello and welcome to my blogsite. My name is Jonathan Jerram and I am currently enrolled at Elmira College in my senior year. I am a psych major, and at 34 years old I am much older than many of the other students. I have worked in special education for 8 years and originally got involved through my mother who is a retired special education teacher. I enjoy many hobbies including fishing, playing video games, bird watching, and just plain hangin with my friends. I am an outgoing person with a fairly positive outlook on life, and a strong family to back me in all of my endeavors. I enjoy helping others and through my work in special education discovered my interest in psychology. After leaving Elmira College I plan on pursuing a Master’s degree in clinical psychology with the hopes of helping people with severe mental illness.
       I hope that by people reading my blogs they will take the time to look further into the issues that surround many of the environmental concerns around the world. I am doing these blogs for my woman and environmentalism class, but my interest in environmental issues have always been strong and this class has given me the tools and the knowledge to voice these concerns through social media. I want people to take these issues seriously and to stop avoiding them or simply saying “someone should do something” like many people do without actually taking action and doing something about it themselves. I understand that its difficult for people to take action when so much often needs to be done, and I am guilty of the same thing, but if we all take small steps in our lives to make a change and save the planet then I feel the world could truly make a difference.
       I know that I have already been made aware of so many disheartening things about how we have been treating our planet just from taking this class, but the fact is that we can all learn so much more and never stop striving to learn and change so that our planet and the animals that inhabit it are here for future generations to enjoy. Thank you for visiting my page, and I hope that all of you who read my blogs and take the time to watch the media that touched me will feel the need for change as well. Above i have put a picture of my parents cottage on Cayuga Lake in New York which i have loved visiting since i was a child. I hope that i will continue to be able to enjoy it and so will future generations of my family, but if we don't take action to keep our planet safe I may not have that luxury. If your bored here's my family website www.jerram.org