Hampshire College
So I just arrived on campus for the Multicultural Overnighter and Accepted Students Day. I've met some really cool people and checked out the photography building and the arts farm. I will be updating this post with my experiences over the weekend.
Writing the Urban Experience
Taught by W. Ryan at FPH 105
Now, I'm sitting in on this class. It's kind of a big class. 23 People. The people in the class are sitting around the tables made into a hollow square. On the outside are all the admitted students/visitors. There are almost as many of us as there are of them. The class is discussing a piece of writing by a student in the class entitled Jersey Kids and cars about the driving as a pastime. It brings back memories of blasting ballads like Journey's Don't Stop Believing and yelling driving with friends when I lived in Washington.
The next story, Laura's story, is about Laura, the aunt of a student who is quite a character, she is a mother of five, went to college while working at Smith and took 10 years to do her undergraduate degree, taking one or two classes at a time. It's quite an interesting piece. I really like it. Although, it does leave you with something missing. I'm just so excited to be in college and participating.
So, that kind of failed, didn't realize my day would be so jam packed. I had a really good time and met a lot of really amazing people. I'll finish up this blog post soon.
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Matthew Gonzalez