Of The World

If I were to say that attending Drexel University was making me and my peers smarter, I doubt anyone would disagree with me. Drexel is an institution of learning, and when I go to my classes I am taught a great deal of information which I was previously unaware of. These facts and figures are important to learn, and I'm sure I will make use of most of them some day, but the fact is that what we take out of the classes is not necessarily the most important thing we have to learn from the college experience. Knowing how to find the area under a curve is not going to help us survive out in the real world. What we really need to learn is how to live. The society of Drexel - what goes on outside of class - is what teaches us that. Before we came to Drexel, the majority of us were leading rather sheltered lives - living at home with our families who provided for us most anything that we needed. Upon coming to Drexel, suddenly we find ourselves out on our own, with no family close by to support us. Furthermore, few of the new students know many of the other students. We are forced to begin a new way of living - one where we must be able to support ourselves. Drexel is host to a large number of international students and students from all across the country, with very different backgrounds, and so we have to learn the best ways to deal with such large and diverse groups of people. To have experiences such as these is invaluable for anyone. Interacting with so many different people has its own educational benefits as well. I went to an Indian Garba dance on Sunday, and I found it to be not only a very entertaining experience, but also a very informative one as well. I learned about Indian culture and religion, as well as customs. In this way, living in our Drexel society actually increases the opportunity to learn about the world and how one can live in it.