| Do you not qualify for Bright Futures in Florida? If so, that should make your in state tuition lower than at KSU.
Another option would be to return to Fla. and go to a community college, making sure you take coursework that would allow you to transfer to a 4-year in state university. Some Fla. publics including FAMU offer scholarships to top transfers from in-state community colleges.
Surely there's some place that you could transfer to that you could afford and where you wouldn't have to deal with the kind of racism you're coping with now.
If you choose to stay at KSU, I suggest that you join a diversity or similar organization, and also talk to whomever is in charge of minority students/diversity programs on campus. Probably community service organizations also will attract open minded, supportive students.
Do not feel that you're the only student experiencing such difficulties. Unfortunately, even in this day and age, such difficulties aren't unusual at colleges and universities that attract students from areas that don't have minorities. I know a young woman who transferred out of Michigan State U. for reasons similar to what you're experiencing at KSU. She was black, high achieving, sophisticated, from Detroit, had lots of friends of all races. Her assigned roommates were white from rural, overwhelmingly white places, and those roommates were scared of her and basically forced her to move out. She eventually transferred to a public university in Detroit. |