Final Thoughts

I have learned so many things that I would have a hard time fitting within 150 words.  For example, before the course I am positive I would not have been successful in describing the public sphere.  But, I think this course brought up many things that I found interesting.  The book that I enjoyed the most was Nobody.  Hill truly challenged me in his reading, it was important to be able to read all of the instances in one timeline. I believe that before this course, I thought about each of the occurrences as its own separate event problem, but truly they are interwoven as one piece.

Most Interesting Thing Learned from Research

I think the most interesting thing that I learned from my research was that according to the findings of the Freshman Survey, an annual study of first-year college students administered by UCLA's Higher Education Research Institute, political polarization on campuses is the most extreme it has been in the study's 51-year history.  The 2016 report is based on responses from 137,456 full-time, first-year students at 184 U.S. colleges and universities.

While, I knew that we are extremely polarized today and it is felt by many, I didn't realize before that out of every single year in which this study has been conducted, this year was the most polarized it has ever been.