<p>Is it true that everyone at AU is completely into politics? because im afraid i wont fit in if i go there (i dont understand politics)…</p>
<p>haha me neither... but i guess i have some problems... considering i'm a poli sci major lol...</p>
<p>on a serious note... my best friend @ AU is an elementry education major... apparently AU has one of the best elementry education programs in the country... ??? ...yeah my thought exactly... lol</p>
<p>and yeah she really isn't into politcs... like u don't have to live and breathe politics... but it does help... but yet again if u don't pick up a book or the new york times... and u don't know whats going on in the world around you... you won't fit in at any college... well unless your at clown college...</p>
<p>~alyssa</p>
<p>Im not sure if that is true Alyssa, some people get by socially on alcohol and sex. Depending on the school.</p>
<p>yea, that is pretty inaccurate. painfully so. you'd be surprised how many college students around the country are out of touch with the realities of our time.</p>
<p>well i'm not going to start an argument w/ you guys... and i guess I, nor anyone can report upon every college and every single college student in the world, about their views (or lack there of) on politics. What I can report about (which is what the actual poster wanted to know about) is the atmosphere of AU.... seeing as I am an actual AU student posting on this board.</p>
<p>To the original poster: one of my friends got into AU... she decided to go to binghamton instead because she was intimidated by the political scene, and she just wasn't into gov (her major was pre-med). Take it is as it is... AU is located in the middle of DC, our nations capital. You can ignore politics, it doesn't mean that it doesn't play a role at AU.... whether you stroll out onto the quad and see a kickball game between the college dems and the college republicans... or your in the bathroom and u see your neighbor wearing one of AUs nifty "Be" shirts.. Whereas the republicans have red shirts saying "be right" and the dems have shirts saying "be a smart-ass."... or you happen to be shopping at metro center.. and there is a protest going on... (for example in sept there was the anti-war protest..." </p>
<p>...i know this post sounds confusing... its hard to explain... i mean my best friend at college isn't really into politics... yet she still loves it... what i'd recommend is that you come down to AU and see it yourself.... see if AU is the right feel and see if YOU think there is a presence of politics on campus and see how much it bothers you. Again it doesn't matter what i say... and what i or my friends think.... in the end it is up 2 u... and what YOU think. Seeing as i am a poli sci major i think that there is a big presence of politics... i came to AU because of the political atmosphere... but not everyone came to AU for the same reasons i did... :)</p>
<p>~alyssa</p>
<p>no need for an argument. you are right about AU, I think I have been on campus enough to say that. you are wrong, however, about not being able to fit in at any college without knowing your current events. ive spent time at colleges across the country and yes there are crowds at every college who are up on things but i would certainly disagree that they are the majority at every school.</p>
<p>One of the things I liked most about AU when I did an overnight was how diverse the student body was. I mean, for quite a while, I wanted to go to to one of those cookie cutter, small, southern, liberal arts colleges. Then, I had some sense knocked into me ;) But in all seriousness, AU really gives you some prep for dealing with the real world in terms of diversity, especially if you want to even consider doing anything vaguely international.</p>
<p>But seriously, everyone I came in contact with was really interesting. I sat in on a required freshman literature class - there were about 14 people and all they did was sit around and discuss what they'd read and in some cases, related it to personsal experiences. So many kids in that class were just fascinating - that I realized that after hearing them speak a few times in a 90 minute class. </p>
<p>Oh, and I wouldnt necessarily say the AU population is politically dominated - they're just AWARE: aware of politics, aware of world events, aware of culture, etc etc.</p>
<p>thanks Eckie! that was some really useful info =)</p>
<p>haha eckie... one of the people u must have come in contact w/ is me because i am so amazingly interesting...</p>
<p>but yeah... life is kinda like that.... i mean in lit100 we do hard work, we discuss works that we're reading, we write lots of papers.. but at least towards the bgeinning of the term... we were doing things like talking about Katrina...and talking about the types of litature that we were into/ reading at the time.... AU is amazing...i miss it!!!</p>