[nabs-l] being scholastically social?

Hope Paulos hope.paulos at maine.edu
Tue Mar 23 18:57:22 UTC 2010


When I first began my college career, I believed what RJ and Sarah A  did; 
that no fun was to be had while attending classes. Perhaps in the first year 
or so of college that might be necessary. The only reason I say that is 
because college is  much different than high school; however, after the 
first year it's likely that you will have adjusted to the rigor of college. 
In order to release stress, you have to have fun. Weather you do extra 
curricular activities on or off campus, sing for pleasure or run, you *have* 
to release stress. You can amerce yourself fully in classes and homework for 
the majority of the day (or even during the week), but on the weekend, you 
should relax and get away from school for a while. Otherwise, if you attend 
college for a significant amount of time, like I did (8 years), it's going 
to ware on you.
Just my opinion.
Hope and Beignet
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jamie Principato" <blackbyrdfly at gmail.com>
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] being scholastically social?


>I consider myself to be very academic-oriented. My career goal is to become
> a researcher and university professor of cognitive psychology, but f you
> only focus on work and nothing else though, if you don't branch out and at
> least devote a little effort to extracurricular interactions, how will you
> develop relationships with future colleagues?
>
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Sarah Alawami <marrie12 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> No in my opinion it will get you distracted from work and work is what 
>> you
>> are there to accomplish. nothing more. I have no time to go out and have 
>> fun
>> now that I'm doing 13 credits. only in the summer or duroing spring break
>> can I pleasure myself in singing karoque. but college is for work alone 
>> in
>> my opinion even if it is a choir class.
>> On Mar 22, 2010, at 3:43 AM, Sarah Jevnikar wrote:
>>
>> > I disagree with RJ and Sarah. Obviously you're there to get a degree 
>> > but
>> > there is so much more to education than that. Learning from lectures 
>> > and
>> > texts is such a small portion of what you will learn in life it can't
>> hurt
>> > to expose yourself to a wide range of people and interests while so 
>> > many
>> > opportunities are available to you. Maybe you won't like what you learn
>> from
>> > others or you won't make the friends you hoped but putting yourself out
>> > there can only benefit you In the long run.
>> > Respectfully,
>> > Sarah Jevnikar
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf
>> > Of RJ Sandefur
>> > Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 12:50 AM
>> > To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
>> > Subject: Re: [nabs-l] being scholastically social?
>> >
>> > I felt the same way as Sarah does!
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Sarah Alawami" <marrie12 at gmail.com>
>> > To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
>> > <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
>> > Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2010 5:18 PM
>> > Subject: Re: [nabs-l] being scholastically social?
>> >
>> >
>> >> I don't socialise but that has nothing to do with my blindness. I 
>> >> choose
>> >> not to socialise with anyone because I'm there to get my degree and
>> nothing
>> >
>> >> else. I know that sounds cruel but those are my thoughts.
>> >>
>> >> Take care.
>> >> On Mar 21, 2010, at 1:28 PM, Darian Smith wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Hi list,
>> >>>
>> >>> I'm curious to  here what  people's thoughts are about  becoming
>> >>> involved in  clubs and campus  activities in school (high school or
>> >>> college). do you  jump at the oppertunity to meet new people? do you
>> >>> feel nervous about it. have you met some of your  best friends at a
>> >>> ralley,  social club, campus society? how did your  self- identity as
>> >>> a blind person factor into  your interactions with people? how did
>> >>> people interact with you?
>> >>> Thoughts?
>> >>> Best,
>> >>> Darian
>> >>> --
>> >>> Darian Smith
>> >>> Skype: The_Blind_Truth
>> >>> Windows Live: Lightningrod2010 at live.com
>> >>> The National Federation of the Blind has launched a nationwide 
>> >>> teacher
>> >>> recruitment campaign to help attract energetic and passionate
>> >>> individuals into the field of blindness education, and we need your
>> >>> help!   To Get Involved  go to:
>> >>> www.TeachBlindStudents.org
>> >>>
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