Lois Weisberg

I really enjoyed reading about Lois Weisberg. In fact I sort of wish I was a Lois Weisberg. Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg brought up some interesting things. One of which is that we are not necessarily friends with people we resemble, but that we are friends with people who we do things with. I do, however, think that both of these factors affect who we are friends with.

When we are really young, we do not really have access to many people. For the most part, we go to school with the same people for years. The majority of the people I sent years K-5^th grade with also went to the same middle school as I did. However, in elementary school, there was only one class per grade and this changed for me in middle school when there were at least 6 classes per grade. Because of this change, I did not see many of the same people every day that I did in elementary school. People I considered my friends in elementary school became acquaintances in middle school. And when I reached high school, some of them became like strangers.

Last year, when I was a freshman, I met these 2 girls with whom I became very close with and still am today. At this time, we all lived in the freshmen quad, so we did not have to travel far to meet up. This year, I live in IV and they live on Huntington and just this small adjustment to location has discouraged us from hanging out as often as we did last year, especially in during this cold, dark winter days.

Another interesting point I found was when the author said poverty is not deprivation, but isolation. That too is another statement that I both disagree and agree with. If you yourself are poor, but you know people who will surely assist you than you are clearly in a better position than someone who lacks those connections. But poverty still is mainly being deprived of materialistic things like money.