Imagine the excitement of a newly graduated high school student. My whole life I’ve heard it said that college is the beginning of a new chapter of life. Some graduates decide to go into the work force while others choose to start over as freshmen in college. Of those who decide to go to school there are those who stay close to home, maybe at the local community college or the university a town over, and there are those who go away to school, taking plane rides or road trips thousands of miles away. Imagine the excitement of one of those college students leaving home for a school significantly away. While they rarely admit as much, students often take for granted arriving in a new town, receiving new school colors, something new to have pride in, and a new community of people to identify with. Benedict Anderson explores the term imagined communities, “Human communities exist as imagined entities in which people will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them or even hear of them, yet in the mind of each lives the image of their communion.”(493) In many ways, the university life is a perfect example to Andersons point. A student may come to a university with hopes of being a part of a new community but at UND for example, with over 11,000 undergraduates, although the student may feel included, there’s no way they could possibly know every person on campus. I, for example, traveled over 2,000 miles to go to school at UND. I left all of my friends and family behind in California, just to get my education and be apart of the Sioux Nation. In some ways I was surprised at how close nit the campus was. I was never one to show school spirit in high school, but here the normal day-to-day dress is a Sioux shirt over a pair of shorts or jeans. However, even in the Sioux community Anderson’s ‘imagined community’ is still prevalent. I feel apart of something at UND but of course most of it is imagined. I don’t know the football team in which I cheer and scream for at the games, few of my professors know me by name, and when I look up at my dream sorority house on the corner right before walking under the bridge, I don’t know any of the girls that live inside. There are a lot of positive aspects to being in a community like UND. I get free student seating at sporting events, I have the right to wear the Sioux colors with pride, and I get an education and the right to live on campus (for a large price of course). However, there are also negatives to being in such a community. If our hockey team loses a game against a rival school, I have to share in the shame of defeat, I’m paying thousands and thousands of dollars to be apart of this community so I’m defiantl