Week 2 Blog Post #4 Chapter 4 p. 108

Chapter four discusses the idea of "Loosely Coupled" systems and the authors' use of a university as an example is great. I find this example to be very defining towards the term in that I definitely see how such an organization falls in the category. I am a part of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications department at SJSU for Public Relations. After three semesters at the school, I definitely recognize familiar faces and students with the same interests as me that end up being in many similar classes as me each semester. I also have come to know the professors and advisors well and have even taken certain professors numerous times for different classes that our needed to complete my major.

But there has been the few random classes that our needed for my major that fall outside of the department I am used to in a complete different building on an almost foreign part of campus. In these classes, such as business classes which are much larger in size than my communications classes, I know one person if I am lucky, but usually I recognize no one. All the professors are new to me and the whole feel of even being in this strange building is uncomfortable compared to the feel of being in my own department.

This is a great example of my experience with "Loose Coupling" because I am so disconnected and so focused and at ease in my own department that I have no clue of what else is out there and all the other people that in reality I attend college with.