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=Stereotyped NESCom Students=

By: Sierra Blanchard Blanchards@students.nescom.edu Most students who attend Husson University or The New England School of Communications feel that there is a stereotype about NESCom students. NESCom has a rep for being the school full of “dorks” or whatever. Whenever someone asks me where I go to school and I tell them NESCom they say things like oh wow I wouldn’t have guessed that. You don’t look like a NESComer. My first thought was well what is a NESComer suppose to look like? I asked a few students what they thought about the stereotype and if they think all NESComers fit the typical description of what people imagine a NESComer is like. I got some pretty different perspectives and opinions. Leigh-Anne Hurley, a NESCom junior says, “There are NESComers and there are people who attend NESCom.” Some people who do attend NESCom are the technologically savvy kind of person who is all about the equipment and whatever else someone may think of when they think NESCom. Rachel Clark, NESCom freshman says, “ When I think NESComer I think the artsy creative type who are good with technology…there are some kids you can look at and know they are a NESComer.” So now there is apparently a certain style a real NESComer would have. Vanessa Nelson, a fourth year student at Husson doesn’t feel as though that there is a difference between Husson and NESCom students. Nelson said “I don’t view NESCom students in a certain way. As a whole there is lots of diversity on this campus.” So to go back to my original question of do all students who attend NESCom fit the stereotype? No they don’t, and apparently some people don’t think, or just don’t realize that NESCom even has a certain stereotype. A lot of Students who attend NESCom believe it or not, are normal college students.