The economic issues in the United States have warped how college is perceived by modern society as it is now mainly viewed as a means to getting a financially successful job. It is this short sided outlook on the college experience that Frank Bruni addresses in his article, “Demanding More from College”, as he asserts that the purpose of college isn’t just to obtain a high-salary job, but to provide an environment where a substantial amount of person growth can be gained. In the article, Bruni challenges students to make new friends who aren’t like their old friends, to engage in different interests and activities, and to try different identities. This proposed challenge is the “blueprint” for personal growth because personal growth is achieved
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I agree that this challenge would be beneficial for college students because by learning new perspectives thanks to this proposed dare, it would make college students more open-minded to foreign concepts and more understanding towards other people. Such a challenge would also be desirable as it serves as a method to help students find their “real” identity by allowing college students an opportunity to experiment with their identities. However, Bruni completely ignores one factor to his proposed challenge – the attainability of its goals, which not every student has the luxury of obtaining due to economic reasons. Nonetheless, I would encourage college students to accept Bruni’s challenge and would strongly advocate this challenge the students at Wilbur Wright College – the college I currently attend.
Bruni uses the term “clannishness” to illustrate how people in the United States separate themselves from one another by conforming into certain groups with specific ideologies (1). These divisions lead to issues in diversity, despite there being distinct groups, because there’s a constant sameness in these groups and a refusal to understand the ideas of others. The challenge Bruni proposes pushes college …show more content…
A majority if not all students attending a college have no prior ties or knowledge about the other students. This acts as an opportunity for college students to reconstruct their identity and their world. This can be a crucial moment in the college experience as Bruni states that, “They can better construct their world from scratch. And the clay hasn’t dried on who they are. They’re not yet set in their ways”; college students can essentially reinvent themselves and their world(s) because they have not completely figured out who they are yet, and in doing so they are setting themselves up for new experiences (1). This serves as pivot since the whole idea of the Bruni’s challenge is to experience new friends and interests to gain new perspectives, which cannot be done without first reconstructing oneself. It must be noted that the reconstruction of student’s identity doesn’t have to be immediate, as it is more likely to progress over a gradual time period. This reconstruction doesn’t have to be permanent as the college students do not have choose a single new identity – they are free to explore whatever identities they choose. With each variation comes a new knowledge and this new outlooks. Also, as the quote states the college students have yet to find themselves; the identity the students had before college doesn’t have to necessarily be there true identity. Through Bruni’s challenge
I agree that this challenge would be beneficial for college students because by learning new perspectives thanks to this proposed dare, it would make college students more open-minded to foreign concepts and more understanding towards other people. Such a challenge would also be desirable as it serves as a method to help students find their “real” identity by allowing college students an opportunity to experiment with their identities. However, Bruni completely ignores one factor to his proposed challenge – the attainability of its goals, which not every student has the luxury of obtaining due to economic reasons. Nonetheless, I would encourage college students to accept Bruni’s challenge and would strongly advocate this challenge the students at Wilbur Wright College – the college I currently attend.
Bruni uses the term “clannishness” to illustrate how people in the United States separate themselves from one another by conforming into certain groups with specific ideologies (1). These divisions lead to issues in diversity, despite there being distinct groups, because there’s a constant sameness in these groups and a refusal to understand the ideas of others. The challenge Bruni proposes pushes college …show more content…
A majority if not all students attending a college have no prior ties or knowledge about the other students. This acts as an opportunity for college students to reconstruct their identity and their world. This can be a crucial moment in the college experience as Bruni states that, “They can better construct their world from scratch. And the clay hasn’t dried on who they are. They’re not yet set in their ways”; college students can essentially reinvent themselves and their world(s) because they have not completely figured out who they are yet, and in doing so they are setting themselves up for new experiences (1). This serves as pivot since the whole idea of the Bruni’s challenge is to experience new friends and interests to gain new perspectives, which cannot be done without first reconstructing oneself. It must be noted that the reconstruction of student’s identity doesn’t have to be immediate, as it is more likely to progress over a gradual time period. This reconstruction doesn’t have to be permanent as the college students do not have choose a single new identity – they are free to explore whatever identities they choose. With each variation comes a new knowledge and this new outlooks. Also, as the quote states the college students have yet to find themselves; the identity the students had before college doesn’t have to necessarily be there true identity. Through Bruni’s challenge