Laughing loudly at the student center,Platonic soulmates joking about their next adventureTwo life’s completely different from one another,Spent fondly walking through life keenly aware of our colorsAware of the privilege it is to have our cute little apartment with cats Read More …
Education and Feeling 227
When I was a senior in high school, I took some difficult classes. One of which was a college biology class. I am terrible at any STEM related class, specifically science, so it was already a difficult class. My professor didn’t Read More …
Education 176
I have friends who have gone to MSU, GVSU, SVSU, other universities, friends who joined the workforce, friends who have dropped out, and friends who have gone to cosmetology school. Our life path looks similar but also vastly different, I Read More …
Education 512
Most of my current friends didn’t go to school, they started businesses, got 9-5’s, certificates etc. We are all kind of in the same spot right now, still just trying to figure it out at our varying ages. No one Read More …
Social Mobility 884
My father grew up in a small, conservative town in Wisconsin where ignorance was frequented. His parents were not college-educated, nor did they have much exposure to the world around them. My dad was gifted and hyper-independent as a child. Read More …
Work 512
I witness all of these things often at work. I work in somerset and often deal with people who often look/ talk down to my coworkers and I. Mostly due to social class but sometimes due to other things as Read More …
Work 380
I used to work at a sausage factory with my grandma every summer and we would get home around 1or 2 am and start at around 4pm. This job took half of our day, and we only receive a fifteen-minute Read More …
Place 200
I used to love my neighborhood. It is a very nice, very diverse neighborhood. It is also big, there are so many different types of people there. I met my first friend who I wasn’t related to there. I also Read More …
Power 434
When I read this question, the first situation I thought of where I felt that I have power in relation to others was in my job. At the restaurant job that I have been working at for over 5 years, Read More …
Intersectionality 290
I think my race is the strongest aspect of my identity, and it’s that way because it’s the most noticeable thing about me. I think I would describe my race as accepting, and comforting. It’s very weird but the environments Read More …