Of course AU is a community. How else could you explain living in a triple on a floor with fifty other people who eat in the same place, talk to each other every day, go to class together, and simply live together! I don't care about the definitions of community other people have. To me, if you live together you're in a community together, like it or not. However, expanding on my very simple definition, a few other factors come into play. For one, we chose American University. There were thousands of colleges we could have chosen, if we had decided to go to college at all! The fact that every person at American selected American shows every single one of us has at least that in common, and having something in common definitely contributes to the cohesiveness of a community. Another factor is that we crave knowledge, not only of the world but of ourselves. In the specific example of our UC: Explorations crew (which is also a community) we chose the program we did in order to learn about ourselves, as well as the material of courses at AU.
I also don't think it even matters if we're a community or not. Who cares? A community is just a word to describe something everyone knows already exists. Does it really matter how we classify ourselves? If I think we live in a community, it has no bearing whatsoever on anything. We just live together, go to school together, and hopefully get along together. That is all and that's all it should be.
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