By Curtis Dunlap
The
Election and My Roommate
I
live off Campus with a friend, Adam McGovern, who graduated last year from
Avila, another friend, Carlton Kenny, the homeowner and Jon McGovern, Adams
older brother. Adam works at an insurance company, Carlton works at Honeywell and
Jon is a programmer. Little did I know my roommate would be on T.V. for his
profession. You see, Jon designed a website
that could take information from social networking sites, see what was trending
and then compile that data to see which candidate was more likely to be voted
for.
I
came home from class one day to see my three roommates gathered around our T.V.
staring intently. I wondered what was going on and they called me in to see
that Jon was on the news for his website. It could actually show how many
people were logging onto his site and checking the stats of the votes. Although
the newswomen misinterpreted what Jon was saying, he said that it cannot tell
you who was actually going to win, it just compiled the data and made an
estimate of who was more popular based on what people were saying on social
networking websites.
Now
Jon and Adam wanted Mitt Romney to win, and when they got the news that Obama
had a second term they were a little frustrated. I still thought it was
interesting and honestly pretty cool that my roommate was on T.V. the news no
less, for a website that he designed to predict who could win the election. I don’t
know what exactly they wanted out of Romney but I know they were upset,
especially Jon. All I could do was tell him how cool I thought it was he was on
T.V.. later they told me that he had been on the news before for being
recognized as most likely to succeed. When I heard that I wasn’t surprised that
he was on the news again. Turns out he is pretty much a genius. My roommates
get on T.V. have high paying jobs, and are some of the smartest people I know. And
now that the election is over, Jon can fix any bugs his website had and make it
even better. There’s always next term.
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