Shortcuts

In the reading Robert Cross mention how a member from one network living in one part of the country can be friends with another group from another network much father away, the connection can be classified as shortcuts. I can apply this concept to may life because I am from Minnesota but I attend school in Washington DC. The networks and connection I make from college are mostly from the east coast and yet I still have old friends from high school.

Last night I went to a party hosted by a friend of mine who is from St. Croix, US Virgin Island. through out the night I met her friends who are all from a different part of the work. As I sit and watch I thought of how all the connections were being made and the merges of network from all over the world. I realize how internationally diverst Washington DC is which is the number one reason I moved here in the first place.