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Do you think for yourself or do your views conform to those around you?

If you just graduated from high school, you’re already familiar with how little deviation from the ‘group perspective’ is allowed. If you’re just entering college, then you have a great opportunity to start thinking for yourself! In college you’ll be able to seek out others that feel the way you do, persuade others of your beliefs and do heavy-duty research to verify your beliefs. It’s also an opportunity to have an open mind for the first time in your life. You’ll be free to explore ideas, dangerous ideas, in the privacy of your dorm room, the library stacks or under the stars on the quad. After all, religion and politics are the most fun and interesting topics to talk about and debate with your friends, complete strangers, or that cute girl at the frat party. Believe us, you’re not going to stand out in the crowd as the laid-back frat brother or the flirty girl that loves bar parties. Those are a dime a dozen.

Please join us in the quest to break the phenomenon of ‘group think’. At riseupRochester we encourage diverse views on diverse issues. Have something to say? Write an article here! Disagree? Leave a comment.

Won’t you join us? Make your college experience something worth remembering, somthting worth looking back upon. I hope that this site will be come yours just as much as it is ours at this point. College is a battleground where hearts and minds are won over with ideas. So throw your ideas into the mix!