Sunday, September 5, 2010
I was thinking of writing my community narrative on The JMU freshman class. I feel that everyone in this community relates together in that we are all experiencing the same stress and pleasures of being at JMU. We all feel the stress of assignments given to us by our professors and we all have the pleasure of being free and independent from our parents. If you have any feedback on this topic leave a comment.
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Andrew -
ReplyDeleteI think this is a great topic! There are so many avenues you can explore here. You may want to narrow your topic by taking an academic stance or a residence life stance, or you may want to take a more general approach and research the JMU freshmen traditions and community standards that are in place for freshmen. The first standards that come to mind are predominantly academic such as the JMU honor code or General Education requirements, but in many ways, you guys establish your own community standards as well.
You can identify things that all JMU first year students, regardless of their background, have in common. You all read the One Book, participated in a discussion about the DNA Age, and own a T-shirt that has the fight song written upside down on it. Like you said, you are all experiencing the same stress and joys of being a JMU first year student as you are living on your own for the first time.
Have you thought about what kind of personal account you want to include in your narrative? You could describe move-in day, your first JMU football game, or your first class.
My favorite thing about this topic is even though you are freshmen now, and there will always be a freshmen community at JMU, you, as the James Madison University Class of 2014, are your own community and will continue to be a member of that community as alumni into your adulthood.
I think this a great topic. As you said, all of us can relate to each other as we start this new journey in our lives. Therefore, your paper could be very beneficial to all of us in the class of 2014 because it can give us a sense of unity during this stressful yet exciting time of our lives. Furthermore, the fact that college in itself is a small community here on campus allows you to have a lot you can say about our freshman class at JMU.
ReplyDeleteI like this idea a lot and it will be easy to get information since there are 4,000 new freshman you can talk to whenever. Even though there are 4,000 of us it will be interesting since everyone here is so different. It will be so cool to see the diversity in the new JMU community. You will really be able to see what people are thinking, if they are excited, nervous, happy or maybe all of the above. Good luck sounds like a fun paper
ReplyDeleteThis is a great topic because everyone in our class can relate to it. Everyone can give you a different view on the topic. The community of the first year of the class of 2014 is a big community and all of us will probably never meet everyone. This is good because going through the year you will be meeting new people with different opinions and different view points on our class.
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