My Freshman Year Quotes

“It is always dangerous to view our collective lives without the benefit of history or without regard to diversity among us.”
― Rebekah Nathan, My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student

“Culture can be invisible to its natives.”
― Rebekah Nathan, My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student

“Villagers saw me as a person when I played with them, as opposed to when I talked with them.”
― Rebekah Nathan, My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student

“Ethnic minorities were 10 times more likely than whites to eat at a table where they were the only representative of their race.”
― Rebekah Nathan, My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student

“Community in the American university is paradoxically a private and individual decision.”
― Rebekah Nathan, My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student

“It is hard to create community when the sheer number of options generate a system in which no one is in the same place at the same time.”
― Rebekah Nathan, My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student

“The adult author finds that by inadvertently violating the school's alcohol policy, she breaks down some part of the barrier between her and the younger students who are subject to more rules.”
― Rebekah Nathan, My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student

“The author's differing experience of school geography as a faculty member going from parking lot to parking lot and to locations centered around HER office and her experience of the more scattered life of a student speaks to a larger truth. As adults, we are used to following the same routine and look romantically on anything different.”
― Rebekah Nathan, My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student

“I find myself constantly taking apart be taken-for-granted.”
― Rebekah Nathan, My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student