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Homework 1 //My Freshman Year//

After reading //My Freshmen Year// by Rebekah Nathan, I thought that her overall idea was very interesting. She is confused by the way college students act. She asks questions like: Why don’t students come to office hours? Why do some students never take notes during class? How can some students bring an entire meal into class and eat it? Or how do some students just sleep during class?

I kind of wonder the same thing. I am a little guilty in some ways, like I hardly ever go to my teacher’s office hours. But I do see some kids, eat, nap, or do nothing in class. I would never in my right mind do anything like that, so I was instantly curious of what Rebekah Nathan observed.

I thought it was smart that she enrolled as a student; however, I can’t believe she actually decided to live in the dorms. When she attended the summer preview for all incoming freshmen, she was assigned a roommate. I would be mortified if I had a grown adult woman as my roommates. I don’t think that was a good idea, because all Nathan is doing is making her teenager roommate feel uncomfortable.

My other main concern with Rebekah Nathan’s exercise is that I feel like the students still would act different to Nathan, even though she is a student technically. Just the way she looks alone, I was brought up to be respectful and polite to adults. I am respectful to me friends, but I still use slang and don’t talk the same way, as I would with an adult. So, I feel like she wouldn’t get the total inside scoop, because the way she looks.

As for the school, Nathan admits that she felt the pressing demand to keeping up with homework assignments. I like how she got some aspect to how much work is required. I do give her some credit for even doing this exercise because I hear the same story from my mom right now actually. My mom just returned to school, and is feeling the demands of college too. I can really understand where Nathan’s is coming from because my mom is saying similar things to me. Overall, I was interested in why us college students act the way we do.