In other words, I'm not asking that Vart introduce me to everybody on campus. But the student body should strive to create environments that contain the two elements presented above. Much of the learning at college happens outside of the classroom. We don't just learn from professors. Some of the most important lessons are the ones we learn from each other.
Interaction facilitates the spread of knowledge and encourages discussion of ideas.
The learning experience at Brown is hampered to the extent that the atmosphere at Brown discourages social interaction. The problem is the social scene at Brown. That scene is not the result of any one person, but of all of us collectively. By defining the problem as an individual burden, we are asking individual students to tackle a problem that is largely in the hands of other people. Not impossible, but surely harder than necessary.