All the Laughs We Had..

At first, I wont lie, I thought why would Southern put 22 people in the same two classes back to back for about 3 hours total twice a weeks; I couldn't figure why they would force students into something like that.

But now with only one week with this group of people, I want to have another class with all of them next semester as well.

The bonds everyone slowly made are now going to be ripped apart. At this point I am not sure if this was a good idea or bad one. Being a commuter this had helped me make friends on campus that I wouldn't have been able to by myself.

I'll miss this odd connection this group of people have made with each other. Through all of our frustrations with Professor Hawkins and are laughs we have become closer to one another than most will realize.

Next semester at 11 in the afternoon on a tuesday or thursday most of our class will wonder what each other is doing, what classes we now have instead and maybe question why didn't we try to be in one of their classes with them.

I know a few people I wish I could have classes with, but because of our different majors and requirements.. we might never met in the classroom again.

In the end, our little learning community has grown on me and I feel it has grown on everyone else as well. Hopefully we all we meet each other later on in the next semester or at some other random moment.


I wasn't really sure about underlying meanings behind using our community learning so I looked up some back ground information about the process. Sadly I couldnt find too much on the topic, however I found this website  that looked into problems a learning group could have and I felt that this was a huge factor for myself in the classroom. Most the time I wanted the teacher to push the class more and not 'baby' them because others were lacking. It is college, people should pick up their own slack. I don't want to be brutal towards those who couldn't keep up or don't put in the effort. But If southern does another community learning group they need to make sure that everyone is at the same level, or make sure the teacher doesnt hold back because of some students. You should never stop another students progress in learning because others cannot achieve it.