Reading_Response_McNelis

While reading My Freshman Year, I came across something that really stood out to me. The fact that college uses the youth and the youths pop culture to bring people together, I found this very interesting. I find that most people find a common ground talking about what the hottest music band out there right now is or what it happening daily with their favorite actress or actor. Teenagers and college students communicate in such a different way because of their times pop culture, a way that their professors do not sometimes understand and even their parents. We are just from a different era. I enjoyed the fact that Rebekah focused on the language when doing her study. She took the time to see the similarities and differences in students among each other and their professors. Although Rebekah was much older than the average freshman, she was treated as just such which I thought was very strange. When people see someone older than them usually there is more respect or more of an understanding. One thing that really solidifies that Rebekah would be treated the same as a freshman is when she got caught drinking a beer. She was reprimanded in the same way which I would have never thought. Rebekah has already done the whole college thing but, she was put back into that position all over again and it must have been a hard adjustment just as it is for incoming freshman. I believe that this related to the Ethnography reading because in ethnography you're studying how people interact with each other, the different cultures and the was people speak. Although I didn't enjoy this reading as much as My Freshman Year I think that in a sense they correlate with each other. Rebekah was forced to learn how this generation works, how these freshman and college students interact with each other. It is completely different than what she was probably used to. Reading this made me make a connection to my family. Some of my family is Italian and some of my family is Hispanic. It is two completely different cultures but, being around each other we in way adapted some of the things they do in their day to day lives we now do in our day to day lives.