NETWORKING
When you go to camp, your social network completely expands. You’ve got your camp friends, your camp friends’ home friends, and your home friends’ camp friends. Somehow, you begin to know of people in the tri-state area that you’ve never actually met.
Every summer, I hear story after story about my camp friends’ home friends. I match a name with a face through the millions of pictures that hang on my camp friends’ bunk walls. I feel like I know them, even if I haven’t met them.
I found this “Jewish geography” or “Jewography” particularly prominent when coming to college. I found it much easier to click with people of whom I had a mutual friend with. I often had conversations like, “Ohhhh, you’re from________? Do you know ____?” From there, the conversation flowed much more naturally. We were able to reminisce on memories with our mutual friend and connect on a more personal level.
With a larger social network, I feel like it can help me in the long run. Whether it be finding friends when I study abroad or searching the job market after graduating college, knowing more people cannot hurt.
Every summer, I hear story after story about my camp friends’ home friends. I match a name with a face through the millions of pictures that hang on my camp friends’ bunk walls. I feel like I know them, even if I haven’t met them.
I found this “Jewish geography” or “Jewography” particularly prominent when coming to college. I found it much easier to click with people of whom I had a mutual friend with. I often had conversations like, “Ohhhh, you’re from________? Do you know ____?” From there, the conversation flowed much more naturally. We were able to reminisce on memories with our mutual friend and connect on a more personal level.
With a larger social network, I feel like it can help me in the long run. Whether it be finding friends when I study abroad or searching the job market after graduating college, knowing more people cannot hurt.