My Freshmen Year Anthropologist Rebekah Nathan
My freshmen year
My freshmen year gives an objective look into the ideal freshmen year of college experienced by anthropologist Rebekah Nathan. From this experience Nathan wrote about her first year as a college student. Nathan’s story attempts to show the social and academic expectancy of a student entering college. Nathan gave her personal accounts of freshmen life by communicating her experience in the dorm, study habits, general student interactions, and demographic. When comparing student life at Albion to that depicted in Nathan’s account, I could make generalizations but as Nathan also found, no student or campus is alike.
To start, Albion College is a small college with a small student body while the school Nathan attended was very large, so one would guess there will be differences in what an Albion student would experience and what Nathan experienced. …show more content…
Student relations on college campuses are a tradition of all new students entering a first year of an educational institution. Many accounts of Nathan’s interactions with students I would deem subjective and skewed. I feel Nathan’s interactions with students are skewed because most college freshmen, fresh out of the house, probably would not want to open up to someone much older than themselves. Nathan’s interactions with international students, she found a slight alienation of that demographic of students. The complaints were that American students often show little interest in the international students and they are often left to explore the new country on their own. During Nathan’s initial experience in the freshmen dorm she noticed that friendships are made within the first week of classes, then it is hard to penetrate a new group of friends. Therefore with a possible, language barriers, difference of customs, or just awkwardness of different upbringings, may be the cause for this
My freshmen year gives an objective look into the ideal freshmen year of college experienced by anthropologist Rebekah Nathan. From this experience Nathan wrote about her first year as a college student. Nathan’s story attempts to show the social and academic expectancy of a student entering college. Nathan gave her personal accounts of freshmen life by communicating her experience in the dorm, study habits, general student interactions, and demographic. When comparing student life at Albion to that depicted in Nathan’s account, I could make generalizations but as Nathan also found, no student or campus is alike.
To start, Albion College is a small college with a small student body while the school Nathan attended was very large, so one would guess there will be differences in what an Albion student would experience and what Nathan experienced. …show more content…
Student relations on college campuses are a tradition of all new students entering a first year of an educational institution. Many accounts of Nathan’s interactions with students I would deem subjective and skewed. I feel Nathan’s interactions with students are skewed because most college freshmen, fresh out of the house, probably would not want to open up to someone much older than themselves. Nathan’s interactions with international students, she found a slight alienation of that demographic of students. The complaints were that American students often show little interest in the international students and they are often left to explore the new country on their own. During Nathan’s initial experience in the freshmen dorm she noticed that friendships are made within the first week of classes, then it is hard to penetrate a new group of friends. Therefore with a possible, language barriers, difference of customs, or just awkwardness of different upbringings, may be the cause for this