Michael Gulczynski
English 160
Writing Project 1 Response Blog
Response Blog
I read the blogs written by Paolo
Morales, Nicole Gavin, and Melanee Neely. All of them were extremely helpful in
helping me find a new way of looking at my new school. The campus itself is
fairly large; and while my area I blogged about consisted of University Hall,
Stevenson Hall, Jefferson Hall, and Henry Hall, it still was only a fraction of
the entire campus.
The campus uses many structures to
achieve diversity in study, class, and the overall feel of the school. The
areas discussed in the blog posts I read exceed my thoughts of the areas when I
first saw the campus. This is when I simply thought, “Oh wow, that’s a pretty
cool looking building.” These posts have helped me to understand what the
campus as a whole is like. It is a place where you always seem to find
something new the second time you look through it. Every building you step into
has something different about it, even if it’s only a slight difference. You
may find yourself in a building you think is old, but you come to think of it
as cozy and inviting. There are just so many examples to be stated such as:
Stevenson Hall may look old and not as inviting as you would’ve thought, but it
is actually quite relaxing. University Hall may look like a place where not to
spend a lot of time because its intimidating, but the little lunch area inside
of it gives it the atmosphere of being student friendly. There are other
examples, but you have to experience them instead.
Each time a new student comes to the
campus, they get overwhelmed. They seem to feel as if it will take a longer
time than 4 years to get to know the campus like the back of your hand. This is
all perfectly normal until you begin to realize that the campus isn’t there to
scare you. It’s a tool for you to use. It is quite inviting and it gives an
atmosphere of welcoming, but also fast-paced college life. From the constant
chatter you hear from people just relaxing in the lounges to the sound of book
pages being turned makes you feel like you are in a place of higher learning.
The feeling of freedom is also a nice thought. You can eat lunch when you want,
you alone are responsible for your homework, and class schedules are not
separated by minutes, as they were in high school.
In conclusion to this response blog, every
one of the people whose blogs I read had something genuinely interesting to add
to my gradually renewing picture of the campus in my mind. The different places
I have never been before seem to make you want to take a look after you have
heard someone’s opinion on it. Everybody has an interesting story to tell and
how they describe the campus is just as important to everyone else as it is to
the author; this is because the campus has a different effect on everybody. The
importance it has on other students and faculty is that they may know what the
campus is to them. The feel of a building may differ from someone else's view,
but this gives an insight to how other people view the building, and you may
appreciate what others' opinions have to offer. Very few people share a
completely similar view of the campus. This is what makes UIC special. The diversity
of the study, purpose, and people make the campus what it is today: a place
where new students can find things they never knew before, and where they can
find out how they want their lives to be in the future.
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