At first, I thought about writing about Hayden Lawn, as well as how there is so much around it. It would have been a great topic, but there was one problem. It is near impossible to find any kind of scholarly article about it! I searched high as well as low, resorting to sources about lawn care, but I was not satisfied with what I found. Instead, I will be talking about dorm life, the benefits of living on campus, as well as something that has far more interesting information on it than a plot of grass certainly does.
I would like to explore more about dorm life, because I have heard about many studies done that speak about the benefits of living on campus. Not to mention, seeing as how I myself am both a resident on campus as well as part of RHA, a student organization that is specifically for residents. I believe that it would be very beneficial to not only myself, but possibly other members of RHA as well; to inspire them all to work even harder for the benefit of the residents.
The evaluation process will be related to the atmosphere within the dorms, as well as the functionality of the community. Seeing as how there are more aspects to dorm life, the aforementioned two are the most basic, as well as necessary for determining the success of the students. I could try and delve in deeper, into the interpersonal relations between roommates as well as suite mates, but that would only complicate the project, in addition to being rather unnecessary.
Some sources that I have found include the book Chic U by Christie Garton, pages 30 through 57, an article in the Arizona Republic by William Hermann titled Living Up the Dorm Life (665 words), Dorm Life With New Puprose (962) published by The Frederick News-Post is another article. Lastly there is one last scholarly article, published in the New York Times, by Susan Jo Keller by the title of Dorm Life 101 (1438). From these sources, I will learn more about the benefits to dorm living along with relations between dorm mates within one’s living community.
Rather than exhausting this topic further, I am just going to blather on about my day. So far, I woke up, had breakfast, ate part of a giant Rice Krispie treat with this amazing guy. My friend and I gave him a card and the monstrously giant sweet treat for his birthday. It was quite delicious, but we all know that it most certainly is not nutritious. I love my friends so much, they are the fucking shit. If celebrities walk on the red carpet, we walk on toilet because we are the shit.
I really like the topic you chose, I found it very interesting. I am also doing a similar topic. One thing I would suggest for annotations is to maybe do all or some of the residence halls on campus, including Hassayampa, Barrets, Palo Verde, or Hayden. You could talk about each one and each of their characteristics. Also, in the evaluation criteria you could talk about the dining in certain dorms, how nice each dorm hall is, and even how good their location is on campus. So far I think you have chosen good sources that will help benefit your project.
ReplyDeleteI think that you have a good topic. However, it seems to me that you are headed towards an analysis, rather then an evaluation. You mentioned in your first paragraph that you want to talk about “the benefits of living on campus.” Assuming that you recommend living on campus, you need to choose four places that support your opinion.
ReplyDeleteThe first step is to come up with criteria that would make a good living space. One piece of criteria could be how close you are living to the campus. For this claim, you could take a picture of the bridge going over University, and talk about how this connects the dorms to the main campus. Talking about the bridge will meet your first piece of criteria, and therefore prove your point that living on campus is a good thing.
I too am doing similar research on dorm life. It definitely has a lot of potential for some great evaluation and has plenty of areas on the campus that can be linked to your topic, such as the many dorms and even the eating areas. I might suggest that you should interview actual students on how they enjoy the dorm life and what benefits and even negatives that they see. But you definitely need to set up criteria to what are the ‘benefits’ that are available to living on campus. Furthermore, your sources seem great for your subject that you will write on.
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