Is GaTech a Community (English HW Assignment #1)

The debate as to whether or not Georgia Tech can be considered a community is based largely on the opinions of people discussing the topic. Georgia Tech is a community because it is a large group of people who are working together in a way that provides for a place where both education and research may be achieved. Perhaps the best way to look at the community at Georgia Tech, like one would at any community, is to imagine all the ways the community works together cohesively so that it may continue to exist. For example, if the cafteria workers didn't work, then the students may not be as well fed, which would result in lower concentration in their classes. Another example is how the greenskeepers are able to maintain an aesthetically pleasing environment on the campus, which is meant to subconsciously help keep the students and faculty in good spirits when the task of school and/or research may seem daunting.

Defining Georgia Tech in this way interprets community in a broader sense, which, in today's world, is perhaps the only way one can truly define a community without making it apply to only a few situations. With a broad definition, one could say that Georgia Tech, as a community, is made of several communities. These communities could range from members of the College of Computing to a group of people in the Chess Club or even to a Fraternity or a Sorority; each of which have their own identity and goals or tasks, but they all share a sense of similarity among their members. These similarities, which link these groups and that allow them to work as one cohesive unit, are what define them as communities. In summary, the only reason one may exclude Georgia Tech from achieving the status of community would be that it isn't self-sufficient, but in a modern society, it would be impossible to define anything as a community if it was based purely upon this factor.