Undergrad Voices

The reason that i registered for this class was to fulfill my writing requirement. I didn't know what to expect from a class that was soley entitled "College!". It seemed strange to me at first, but after thinking about it for a while i figured it'd be about college life in general. My questions about this class were answered after the first day. We discussed the impact of a young community at Berkley in California and what college brings to the mainstream world. When I say "mainstream world" I mean the frontlines with respect to politics, world events and the mainstream media of course. College students play a very important part in the mainstream world. Young people are the voice of that particular generation, and that generation of the present will produce the leaders of the future. This is why it is very important to listen to these voices and pay attention to the different things that college students do. I'm not sure on what my concrete research topic will be, but I feel very strong about college student activity and the role that young people play in our mainstream world. I think that students hold more power than they know and that power has a lot of potential. It can change the world in drastic ways and it is only a matter of time before a situation like the one at Berkley comes to our University at Rutgers. The students here are very active in politics and community affairs. Rutgers' students are a different breed in a way. I feel like they are persistent in pursuing what they think is right. They can be a annoying at times, but they are only fighting for what they believe in. Persistence is what separates us from most schools and this is why i feel we will see another Berkley situation here on the shores of the Raritan.