tales of a perpetual journey

#reverb10, day seven: community | 7 December 2010

Prompt

December 7 – Community.

• Where have you discovered community, online or otherwise, in 2010? What community would you like to join, create or more deeply connect with in 2011?
  (Author: Cali Harris)

Post

I have discovered community this year through my writing class. It is a freshman writing class with twenty people, only one of whom is actually a freshman. Partially because it is so small (for a CU class), and because my professor is incredible, we have been able to form a great community. We have gotten to know each other incredibly well, and it’s nice having a place where we can be comfortable talking about everything from military techniques to veganism to prostituion in the span of an hour. Unfortunately, Thursday is our very last day of class.

In 2011, I’d like to get more involved with what I call the “Boulder Tech Community,” although not everybody in this community is necessarily a technically-oriented person. It’s mostly just people I follow on Twitter who follow each other, and occasionally hang out. I’ve been watching this community from the sidelines for almost two years (does that make me creepy? If it does, I’m sorry), but I’ve always been intimidated because I’m a lot younger than a lot of the people in the community. However lately I’ve been interacting more with people in this community, through Twitter mostly. Participating in this project is another way I have been taking steps to join this community. These are people I truly find interesting (at least from the things they post online), and I would like to get to know all of them better.

AND IT’S 11:59 SO I’M GOING TO HIT POST

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