StoutGroup2ReadingResponse

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GROUP 2: - on "social processes"

I found these readings interesting but I liked the second much better than the first. I thought that the first one was directly telling the reader what they had to do in order to have a good freshman year. Even though it was all very informative, how they provided the information to the readers seemed demanding. A reason why I liked the second one was because it was about students helping other students. Students are the ones that know first hand how college life works. Older students are better able to assist freshman than adults because those students know how college life is today. The beginning starts off with introductions about different students at different schools. I love how they discussed how freshman year //really// is and how it's not. The table of contents navigates the reader to helpful tips about freshman year. They may be broad topics in the table of contents, but it is helpful and way less demanding than the first one. These reading made me think about how my freshman year was. Some of these topics related to my freshman year, and some did not. I feel as though some some of the topics that are discussed in these readings are pretty irrelevant to some people. Not everyone leaves home when they go to college. Bloomsburg University has a large commuter population and do not live on campus. Not all students have to say goodbye to their families during their freshman year.