Hey everyone,
After being M.I.A for a while I decided that I needed to ask you all a question.
I'll get right to the point. Fall is here and I have indeed started grad school. The special dorm/apartment style setting that I'm living in has a small population of black grad students there. At school, there are even less "of us" if you know what I mean.
My problem is not that I can't relate to and become friends with people of other ethnicities (my h.s and college was majority white w/ other ethnicities mixed in), it's just that I miss that sense of "kin-hood" that I've always had. That feeling of comfort and support I get when I'm around other black-americans or West Indian individuals. My mom said to me today that, "As you get higher up in your education, your gonna see less and less of other black folks.You gon have to get used to it." Do you all find that to be true?
Another issue is that I seem to be very young in this whole master's degree game. Many in my building and in my program seem to be 24, 25, 26 or older with prior careers, kids, spouses, world travel experiences, ect . . I'm 21 fresh out of college (and with none of the above). When people hear that I'm 21 they're always surprised.
So it's like I'm kind of on the outside for 2 reasons, my age (can't seem to relate to those w/ more life experience) and that fact that culturally, I find it hard to meet new people (I'm in a new city) even when I put myself out there and engage with new and different people.
So w/ all that said, any advice for me folks?? I'm stumped
A Grad School Journey
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