Recently I was able to attend a function on campus that included students and faculty of various departments, including members of the Political Science department. It was a great experience: I learned great deal about a part of our government I unfortunately know too little about, I identified some new career objectives, and I was able to put faces to the names of professors of classes that I have taken at UNO. Unfortunately I also saw the weak nature of the relationships I built with these previous professors as a distance education student. Where the on campus students' relationships were strong and faces were familiar, I was akin to a visiting student. It means that for the remaining short period I have left at UNO I will work very hard on turning my mere digital presence into a memorable (and hopefully positive) member of the Political Science graduate student body, by using such tools as posting a Blackboard picture, and increasing the frequency with which I email my fellow students and professors.
Chris
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