I am an outsider. Not an outsider as in creepy, but I usually stay to myself. All of my years of school have usually dwelt upon myself. The reason why, I was the kid in class that actually wanted to learn. However, most of my peers did not. I could recall myself as a kid occasionally feeling extremely isolated, then trying to fit in. Occasionally in class, I found myself holding back with academic questions, and concerns because I was afraid of being harassed. The fact that, I wanted to actually learn, was not considered popular. Therefore, when it came to college my question remained, what is college?
In my family, college is not something that is anticipated, perhaps graduating high school. But attending college, no. Becoming an outsider came from not wanting to contribute to the several stereotypes that surrounded African Americans to be successful such as: “playing sports or rapping to be successful,” in fact, I do not like sports or rapping. Nevertheless, my
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Broward Community College was my choice, but my teacher came to me and said, “Nelson, you are an intelligent young man, don’t sell yourself short, do some more research.” And, I did do some more research. I came across this school, my dream, Boston University.
For the college project, I found out that Boston University offered a Human Physiology major, which is something I was interested in because I did not want the typical “biology major” to ultimately become a medical student. I found out about the small class sizes in courses, the career experienced professors, and the overall student life at Boston University.
Over the course of two years, I have read more than a thousand student and faculty reviews on Boston University. I constantly keep up with BU Today and the BU social media pages. I watched the entire series of COMlife twice, which was produced by, the College of
Even though I have had these disadvantages and probably many others, I am not going to let it stop me from being successful. I have made it this far so I can’t stop now. In this paper, I talked about my social location and identity, my life experiences and my privileges and disadvantages. The point of this paper is to allow me to reflect on who I am and at this point I think that I am a motivated, hardworking, young African American woman with a bright future ahead of
I want to look back and know that I picked the school most suited to me. Hofstra is a large, beautiful, and ethnically diverse school in which teachers actually care about their students. I had a chance to tour the Hofstra campus at one of the open houses and I was easily astounded by the size of the campus. I remember thinking to myself this is a school that takes pride in its presentation, this school takes pride in its students.
School is a place where you go to spend about half of your life learning about topics that simply do not interest you or that truly won’t help you in the future. The U.S government tells the teachers what they need to teach in their schools for the class curriculums, so that the students can learn a healthy amount of material. The best thing is that many high schools fail to teach their students important things. Many teachers just pass students along through their class, because they don’t want to hold them back and deal with them for another year, but soon enough most of us move onto college. I’ve seen many people fail during college, because their high school did not push them to try to achieve great grades.
Is the experience being an outsider universal? This question often is thought of by people of all ages. An outsider can be anyone including someone who looks, acts, speaks, or presents themselves differently than what is normal. Everybody feels like an outsider at one point of their life, which is why the experience of being an outsider is universal. The experience of being an outsider is present in the story "By Any Other Name" by Santha Ramma Rau, as well as "The Dolls House" by Katherine Mansfield and "Sonnet, With Bird" by Sherman Alexie.
It’s Not Universal Humans are social beings and, typically, we prefer to surround ourselves with similar types of people. Often times, this means excluding others and even outcasting them from society. Nearly everybody has experienced being an outsider. whether it was not knowing anyone at a new school to not having the “must have” item that everyone else seemingly had. The experience of being an outsider is not universal because the feelings associated with being outcast are circumstantial, people react differently, and people have varying degrees of introversion.
Throughout the essay, Charles Murray stresses the idea that college is the wonderland of finding oneself and to find the career that one would want to follow for the rest of their lives. “College is seen as the open sesame to a good job and a desirable way for adolescents to transition to adulthood. Neither reason is as persuasive as it first appears.” Murray, C (2008) Practically spoken, this is not normally the case. College is a fair amount of work, much more work than one would normally acquire through any course of a high school or secondary school setting.
College is an important and new experience for many people including myself. Coming into college I think a lot of people have small mindsets including myself towards what takes place. As Robert Frost said “we come to college to get over our little mindedness.” I agree with statement currently being a freshman in my first semester of college. College in general is a life changing experience that comes with a lot of life lessons.
Though there are many individuals who believe that college is not for everyone, attending college and getting a higher education can open the gates to many tremendous life changing opportunities such as becoming healthier, begin able to secure jobs, and earning more financially.
“Are outsiders simply those who are misjudged or misunderstood?” When presented with this question, I immediately formed my opinion. This immediate reaction was most likely formed from the defensiveness I have allowed myself to have towards varying subjects. As my mother always says, “past predicts future.” I understand the argument of people who are “outsiders” are misjudged.
An outsider is a person who does not belong in a certain party or a group. An outsider is left out from parties, groups, and even sometimes they are not allowed near a place or person. Outsiders are not cool and people do not like them or are not drawn to them. Synonyms such as the odd one out, stranger, and refugee say it all. All of these words are example of what outsiders feel like or what outsiders are.
College Isn 't The Only Answer If anyone has ever went to high school, then they have heard about college. Everyone has a different point of view on the idea of college. Part of it depends on how someone was raised.
Let’s say that an outsider, or better yet an alien for the sake of an argument, with very basic and only literal knowledge of the English language was to observe a classroom setting. If he was to overhear a conversation in which a child utters “you’re really fat” to a peer, his take and meaning would most certainly take a different meaning than that of the child which the statement was aimed towards. To our alien, who is completely devoid of social context, hearing this statement would indicate that the child was simply making an observation that his desk partner (if we were to take a weight distribution of the population) was on the heavier side of the norm. However, if we were to overlay this statement with its socio-cultural context, we
Being an outsider is something that I’ve faced for as long as I can remember. When I was younger, I was the first kid to learn to read, and then that was the only way I ever spent my time. If there was even a free moment in class, I’d pick up a book. People didn’t always understand what I was talking about when it came to books, but one friend did. Her mother and father both worked at publishing companies, and she was never without a book nearby, just like me.
Imagine that you have just graduated high school. You are more full of life, enthusiasm, and energy than you have ever been. Your four years of hard work have finally paid off, and now it is time for the next step. According to your parents, teachers, and just about every other authority figure in your life, college is that step. However, what if that did not have to be so?
Fatherless. Growing up as an African-American female, I have come to certain realizations that have made me more cautious of the people I chose to associate myself with on a day-to-day basis based on ignorance that society distributes for others’ use. For example, society portrays the black cultural without a father raised in a single-mother household in a low-income environment. By providing this image to the world, it allows them to interpret that image in any way they chose. In my case, my father was in my life for a short period of time which proved that stereotype right.