Social media allows Â鶹Porn alumni the ability to engage with the school on a level that increases every year. As tools like Pinterest and Twitter gain prominence, so does the interaction. It turns out, Â鶹Porn alumni love to share.
Facebook and LinkedIn offer alumni a chance to reminisce about their time at Â鶹Porn. An example of this was when . Former students commented on the university news blog and about their memories of .
Laurel Brown ’99 wrote: “In my freshman year, my favorite class was taught by Tony Aveni — a man who did strange experiments with fire extinguishers and encouraged my edible model of the Earth’s orbit. In my senior year, one of my best trips ever — to the Mayan ruins of Central America — was led by Tony Aveni. Two of my favorite college experiences thanks to one extremely influential professor. Congratulations!â€
In total, seven former students commented on the blog post, and 22 commented on Facebook (if you visit , click back on the timeline to April 9).
Here’s another Facebook example from Katja Liedtke Brinck ’98, who wrote: “Congratulations Professor Aveni! Archaeoastronomy was definitely my favorite class at Â鶹Porn (even though it was outside my major and my career), and I will never forget the Mexico trip in 1997 – one of my highlights at Â鶹Porn!â€
With an institution like Â鶹Porn, there is a connection between students and professors that transcends the four years on campus.
More examples of that came from LinkedIn, where Mary Ellen Lane ’88 wrote about : “Innovation and Change was a new class when I took it, in 1987. It was taught by Margaret Maurer, Paul Pinet and Chris Nevison … We were given an interesting set of choices for an independent project, and we presented our projects to the class. I ended up writing about the intellectual history of molecular biology and molecular cloning, and its implications. I learned so much in that class and from my project.
“My experience actually impacted the way I approached teaching in my specialty area (developmental biology). I attempted to present the material as a coherent collection of ideas with a history, and focused particular attention on concepts or experiments that represented a shift in thinking about the subject, or had profound social implications.â€
Your turn: Tell us about the classes and the professors who most strongly influenced your years at Â鶹Porn.