Hello Everyone,
It was nice meeting you all yesterday at our first in class session of Freshman Seminar. I was overwhelmed by the size of the class but as they say the more the merrier. I feel that our group is very vibrant and I hope it stays the same for the rest of the semester. As discussed in class, you are expected to blog about certain topics and areas to fulfill you Freshman Seminar Class participation. Please do not look at this as just a fulfillment of a class requirement but as a means for you to improve your written communication skills and build bonds with your colleagues by sharing your thoughts and ideas. We are not expecting any of you to be professional writers when offering your bits but simply to put forth your ideas in the most positive and unsoiled manner as possible.
As your first official blogging assignment, you can choose to write about one of the following;
A) For those of you who read the book, “Reservation Blues,” by Sherman Alexie, reflect upon what the book meant to you or how it made you feel or look at something differently. You can even blog about a major theme of the book. However, whatever you choose to write about must connect to your life somehow.
B)Continue the discussion you left off in your groups from our last session when we looked at the Case Vignettes which essentially was getting at adjusting to college. Whether it was case 1 or 2, continue talking about what your group discussed in terms of Awareness, Knowledge and Skills. Awareness being taking responsibility for your actions, Knowledge of what is expected of you in college and Skills being putting what you have learnt into practice.
Two to three paragraphs is all we ask of you but feel free to write more if you so desire. This assignment will be due on Tuesday the 8th of September, 2009. Please refrain from any plagiarism and please do not restate what someone else from our section has already stated in their blog. Most of all have fun with this assignment and welcome to the world of blogging.
Yours sincerely,
Junior Anand Ramroop
Peer Mentor of Section BEG1A