Welcome New Bridge Students

Our class blog, http://pamandddolly.blogspot.com/, is a collaborative space where you will discuss and exchange ideas with your instructors and peers. Rather than being the sole author of a collection of writing, the blog will be a group effort allowing each student to write original ideas and responses to classmate comments. The goal of this blog is to provide a space in which we can reflect and evolve ideas each individual contributes.

Each day two to three students will design a question to pose for the class (you will pick your own dates based on the syllabus). The next class day we will spend 45 minutes responding to those questions. Please make an effort to write thoughful and reflective responses and spend the entire 45 minutes writing. Always try to explore the ideas behind the question rather than try to find the right answer.

This class has control over this blog, which means in the end the result and what you learn or don't learn from it rests on your shoulders. With this is mind, we encourage you to be creative and thoughtful. But be mindful of its relevance to the questions and repsonses; we do not need post after post of political rants or break up stories. Please remember to always remain repsectful, to be open to new ideas, and to use your words to clearly explain your point rather than using bold, upper case letters and exaggerated profanity.

Finally, you are encouraged to use quotes from the books, to use your own experiences, to share what you have discussed at salons, museum visits, and lectures. This is our space to reflect on and openly explore themes from Bridge as they relate to our lives and the world around us. We will use this space to question, share our inquiries and insights, and post our most sincere thoughts about the reading and as we progress through the next four weeks together.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Local and Global Differences!

In True Notebooks all the inmates have unique traits that make them different from each other, but they are similiar because they are all inmates. In Persepolis not all of the citizens of Iran have the same cultural and religous beliefs, but they all live in the same country. We are all considered different and unique but we are still considered similiar because we are all Columbia students.

How do you set yourself apart from all the other students at Columbia? How do we as Columbia students differ from other college students?
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  1. Yolo1August 19, 2010 at 12:12 PM

    I don't know how I set myself aside from other students at Columbia. Just for the fact that I haven't been here long enough to determine what sets me aside. Yet as a whole community of students who attend Columbia our insights and the way we think are completely different then other college students. We are definitely set aside from the rest and that’s a great thing for us to feel :-)

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