My Freshman Year Summary

In class, we learned that “Culture is sets of learned behaviors and ideas that human beings acquire as members of society” (Lavenda p.230). In the book, My Freshman Year, one of the main parts of it is understanding other cultures. As an anthropologist, you always want to be able to have a better understanding about humans. According to book the author, Rebekah Nathan was having a hard time understanding what was going on with her students and why were not they acting like students she has taught in the past. In fact, Nathan had so much urge to seek an answer she enrolled into a university as a first-year freshman to become a primary source to her experiment. She wanted to be able to gain data and information of the college student life in that age.
Enrolling into college was not the easiest for most first-year students, but for this future student it was effortless. Nathan was not only was an anthropologist she was also a professor with a degree …show more content…
While taking this class, we read about, “Evolution is the process of change over time” (Lavenda p.6). In the book, the author purpose was trying to understand the evolution of a college student culture. While reading the author questioned herself “How could some of my students never take notes during my big lecture class?”(Nathan p.2) She also brought up how hard she had to work to be able to reach her goal. With this example, it showed the evolution of hard work done by college students. Being a college student, I can also agree with Nathan that students do not work as hard as they did in the past. Generations ago college students did not have the same resources as the students had at that time. Statistics shows in 1998, only 51% of a classroom had internet access, and 2003 it rose to 92% (Wells p.27). That statistic shows that the students nowadays in the 21st century have a wider opportunity to access the internet which has tons of