Blog Response #1

Hello my name is Sarah A. Walsh. Most people think that I am somewhere between 18 and 25 years old. They are totally dumbfounded when I tell them that I am actually 40 years old. I will be 41 on August 30th. Yes, looking very young for your age runs heavily in my family. Anyway, my emphasis areas, in the INTS program, are VT and Art. I was originally a CS-VT major, but I recently switched to the INTS program. I choose to make this switch because I needed an option that would allow me to continue to study my area of interest, but would allow me to get away from some programming classes that were of absolutely no interest to me and that I was finding that I could not pass because I don’t have a programmers brain. The most interesting thing about me that I could share with the class is this: I have been almost legally blind all of my life and have had to wear very heavy RX glasses since I was in Kindergarten. This past summer I did something that has given me a totally new perspective on life. I had surgery on my eyes receive ICL implants that have now taken me from being almost legally blind to seeing just about 20/20. It has been fantastic. Hopefully I only have three semesters left of school until I will have my bachelor’s degree. I can’t wait.


What do I think Neighborhood and Community really mean. Well first of all, they both are a geographical group of people. Neighborhoods are more specially a small area with in a larger community where a group of people live who tend to have the same values, skills, financial level, etc. A Community is a larger geographical area that encompasses many neighborhoods and has the same rules and government policies, etc.


I thought the reading were very interesting. It must have been quite an experience for Sampson to study neighborhoods in Chicago for over ten years. I never would have though of doing that type of research project.