To the Editor:
It seems like Chelsea Waite '11 missed out on a big part of that highly-vaunted Brown Education ("Classrooms should create learning communities among students," Oct. 25). In her column, she never acknowledges the existence nor the efforts of the concentration DUGs, which work hard to provide social settings and events for concentrators to mingle and experience some extracurricular activities together. She might have enjoyed her four-year stretch here a bit more had she met the communities that form around these intellectually stimulating seminars, and I can only hope that anyone unfamiliar with them at least swing by a meeting or two to see if they can find the same.
Also, it never hurts to actually be friendly and an engaging personality regardless of whether or not there's an infrastructure in place for concentration-bonding. Smiling, memorizing the results of the semester-starting name games and being invested in the material isn't enough; friendships are made of more than just mutual interests, and the two may end up, depending on the people in question, being mutually exclusive.
Nicholas Morley '13
Oct. 25
