yale is getting to my head. (13 days)

princessbell
Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:24:20 +0000

well first off, I just really like the word fragmented. it’s really nice.

but anyway, i visited for discovery weekend, and it was fun, but i found a couple things very strange. 1) the south 40-cool idea, but it is SOOO far away from everything else. it seems like it would be tough to make friends with upperclassmen 2)lots of self-segregation. i’m not stupid, i know it happens everywhere, but it was to the point where my host said “all the black people know each other. we look for other black people wherever we go because we have to stick together”. i found that ridiculous. 3) self-segregation cotd. all the black people and all the asian people sat together in the really packed late night cafeteria place

there’s soo much more. I felt a more inclusive atmosphere at Yale and other east coast schools than in the Midwest. it mostly matters to me because i’m black, and i don’t want to have to choose between hanging out with only minorities or only white people. i had a lot of fun, but i’m not sure i could deal with the weirdness for 4 whole years. otherwise, wash u is really amazing.

i feel really confident about the scholarships because i already did an interview for the ervin, which went really well, and they flew me to campus for free, i’ve showed loads of intrest and i’m applying to rodriguez and ervin so even if i get half-scholarships from both or even less, it’ll still be really cheap.