College, like any other place, is a unique environment. And like every ecosystem there are several layers that break down the ecosystem until you are looking at a single individual (in this instance a single individual is this little Busy Bumble Bee). For my specific college I would break down as followed:
1. The Town
This is where the University is located on a map.
2. The University
While this doesn't have any map coordinates to go with it, it is indeed the layer of the ecosystem.
3. The Administration
This is the first layer of the living organisms. These creatures try to look at the "Big Picture" when making discussions about the school. They can miss some important details, but they mean well.
4. The Parents
While these particular individuals do not live on the premises they do make an impact on the ecosystem and are thus considered into the layers
5.The Faculty
These are the organisms that have the most contact with the students. These can almost be considered the adult form of the below layers
6. The Students
This is a very important layer. The students are what keep the ecosystem held together. They are like the glue to a birthday card, or the blood to a body.
This is where the layers start to become really specific.
7. The Foreign Exchange Students
These are the individuals who migrate in and out of the ecosystem thus providing diversity. These individuals are known to group together due to the fact that they find comfort in travelling together.
8. The Jocks
These organisms are also known to migrate into and out of the ecosystem, though not as far as the previous layer. These individuals are brought together by training for battle together, much like soldier ants.
9. The Artists
These interesting individuals are brought closer by the struggles of an artist. I'm not really sure what the struggles are the of an artists are, but I still think it brings people together. After all, struggle is what brings us all together.
10. The Scientists
In case you haven't guessed, scientists are the college students who study science. There you go. There's that category.
11. The Biologists
This group is specific to the study of life (That's what biology means, the study of life).
12. The Sarcastics
This is the group of people I spend time with. Yes, I'm sarcastic. If you haven't been able to pick that up from my blogs then I need to try harder.
13. This Little Busy Bumble Bee
This is me. I am a Busy Bumble Bee who is sarcastic, who loves to learn, read, and write. I'm a nerd, and love every minute of it.
This little ecosystem that has been created is very isolated. Barely any news comes in or out unless someone makes an extraordinary effort. Now this has both pros and cons. On the cons side we are quite in the dark. Everything that occurs both nationally and internationally is in the dark. We are kept in the dark, but expected to be a "part" of the world that we cannot see. It is quite difficult when you have no idea what is going on. On the other hand this is the ideal situation for ideas to proliferate. This is a petri dish for college ideas. In a scientific situation this is perfect. [A scientists always wants to observe a clean environment without making an impact on the environment or the organisms that reside within that environment] Any ideas really: religion, political, music, environment, any idea big or small, relevant or irrelevant, smart or completely stupid can be discussed, changed, ridiculed, or defended all while eating lunch or in between classes
Another way to look at the ecosystem is not by looking in, but by looking out. To look at how the ecosystem works with other ecosystems. I am only familiar with my little town and my little campus, but my little campus has reached the far corners of this country. Every time a student graduates and takes their first steps out into the world, the reaches of the college increases. This college is just one stop on life, just like a bee collecting pollen and then taking it to the hive to create honey. Every stop a student makes they collect information, in my analogy information is pollen, and drop of some information and continue off. Finally they arrive at their final destination, the hive. They're final destination isn't death, no in fact it's life. When someone decides to settle down, make a life for themselves I think this is their hive. When it's a really good life, something sweet always comes out of it, again that's the honey in my analogy. This sweet honey can be seen as different things for different people. To some it's a rewarding job, others it's children, family, friends. These different sweet things don't make life any less sweet, it just brings sweetness to that particular person's life. Now this is me working on my honey. My blog makes me happy so it's part of my sweet. My pollen comes from my life, my experiences, and I'm rather enjoying my honey. Now go out, find your honey, work for it, and enjoy it when you have it.
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