My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student
 

My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student

by Rebekah Nathan

A revealing look at the college freshman experience, from an insider?s point of view

After fifteen years of teaching anthropology at a large university, Rebekah Nathan had become baffled by her own students. Their strange behavior?eating meals at their desks, not completing reading assignments, remaining silent through class discussions?made her feel as if she were dealing with a... (read more)

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I can't give it 5 stars because I haven't read all of it yet. This is another book in which I read the first chapter through an online book club. A social scientist in her 30s decides to pretend to be a freshman for a year at a Big Ten university. I found her observations in the first chapter to be pertinent as I was wrapping up my undergrad, and I look forward to finishing the book over winter break.

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    rebecca m said:

    It gave me some insight into why my college students don't seem to care terribly much about academics. I modified some of my teaching strategies after reading this book and, perhaps more importantly, learned to take myself less seriously. It's really interesting, and funny, and it's good to see how concerned the writer is with doing ethical research.

    posted Wednesday, November 28 2007
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