First thoughts/Students Helping Students ch.1-2

To be honest I am not much of a blogger, however my first experience with blogging was with the recitation section of UST 111. Blogging can be useful if used responsibly, and following blogs can definitely become a huge waste of websurfing time. I am looking forward to the experience with the different assignment requirements associated with our Hixson blogs and correspondence between all the peer mentors.
       The beginning of Students Helping Students helped further my understanding of the role a peer educator plays in colleges all over the world. The book uses a lot of great definitions and exercises to trigger a new way of thinking and approaching the role as a peer mentor. I personally found the five principles to guide peer mentor work as extremely applicable to situations I experienced as a first year college student, and becoming aware of the principles helped me focus on my individual growth and different adjustments throughout my previous semesters.
       The beginning of this book builds the framework of becoming and sustaining the active role as a peer mentor, and provides the reader with different lenses in which to view their specific situational call to leadership and mentoring. This book reads as if it were a handbook which contributes to its readability, and the different hypothetical scenarios and exercises included trigger individualistic lesson responses. Overall I am excited to continue reading this book and take all that I can from the lessons and experiences it has to offer.