>From: "Beth Oberle" <[email protected]>>To: [email protected]>Subject: Journal #1>Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 11:13:03 -0400>>09/06/2001>> These past 2 weeks of classes in student leadership have been pretty >entertaining, yet informative. The first day of class was a definate >surprise. I am very thrilled to hear that most of the class will be off >the internet. I am a communications major and I feel this class will come >in very handy for me to get more experience with the 21st century >technology. I did not know what to expect when I walked in the classroom, >but now I am pretty confident that it will be beneficial in improving my >leadership skills. I have taken many courses to do with being a leaderand >working in groups so this may just polish my abilities further.> The group work in this class is going to be very fun. My group has >decided to make a web page to inform students and visitors of East Lansing >about the shopping in the area. We are going to investigate prices andbe >detailed about the styles of the shops. So far our group has worked >together very well and has been very cooperative towards one another and >the assignment put forth.> The assigned leadership article was basically a review to me. My >field of study in communications is organizational so I have already taken >many courses dealing with how to get the best out of an employee. I found >the article to relate well to many real life situations I have dealt with >as well. I am a member of the Evans Scholar house and just living there >forces me to deal with diversity and see what makes each individual I come >in contact with tick. The 2nd article I was not able to access. I will >ask about it in class, but it says the page has been moved.>>Beth Oberle>a27637493Comments: Some very interesting comments and I’m particularly interested in your experiences with the Evans Scholar program if you get a chance to write about it in further journals. You also come into this course with a very strong experiential base, having gottenthe organizational background from your program and related experiences. So, I guess the thing I would do is to suggest you consider the value of some of those experiences and the training you have had and how your thinking has changed, say, since you were in highschool or earlier? For that matter, has it changed? Has your college experience been one of a continued support of your thinking (and nothing wrong with that, if that’s been your experience) or have you had a variety of “Oh, I didn’t really think of it that way” experiences? These questions are just food for thought, of course, but I would be interested in knowing what it is like for a person who seems to be in a program that not only invites, but requires a certain level of leadership. . .and the challenges to your own thinking, your values, ideals and goals, etc. Are they similar to ones you had when you were younger and are only stronger, now? Or, are they different? If so,