What up...I am a senior in high school and I have a research paper due FRIDAY...I'm doing it on the history of black colleges and the experience. I figured the only way to get a true meaning of the experience is to ask students who attend black colleges so if you will of want too...follow this format and I will use ya info in my paper and u will be recognized for it in the works cited page
The date of your post
Your name
Your school, and year, and year of graduation
What you feel about attending black colleges and your personal experience
PLEASE DON'T BLOW THIS TOPIC OFF...I REALLY NEED THE HELP!!!
U should post this in Love and Relationships...more folks go and respond in that forum.
I'm being lazy so I don't feel like responding at the moment, but I'll get at u before Friday.
The date of your post
Your name
Your school, and year, and year of graduation
What you feel about attending black colleges and your personal experience
Welp... *kracks knuckles*... I ain't got a damn thing to do until 5, sooo...
Name: Larry M.
Date: 2/4/04
School: North carolina A&T State University
Year: Junior, Class of 2005
I personally think that historcally black colleges and universities give people chance to go to school that wouldn't get that chance anywhere else. Am I saying that our standards are lower than majority schools? Yes I am. Am I saying that they have to be? No, I'm not. Its just that a whole lot of black people wouldn't be able to attend college based on overall grades and standardized test scores. That being said, it wouldn't make sense for and HBCU to set standards that the majority of the constituency that its supposed to serve cannot meet. I think that if we as a people could stress education more than becoming the next Tupac, then we'd be able to have more children with a better education and therefore be able to raise the standards of HBCUs. My college is supposed to be one of the best engineering schools in the U.S., however there are some people that I see too many of that can't read "big words" or can barely set up a PC. How they've made it through three years of college majoring in engineering is far beyond me. See where I'm coming from now? But for those of us who could actually meets and shatter the standards of majority schools, HBCUs provde even more opportunities. It gives us a chance to shine in a place for us, by us (black people), whether the government would have it that way or not. Not only do we get a chance to flex our intellectual skills among our own, but the cost is usually much lower than that of a majority school. The educational value is unbeaten. However, you can never place a value on the commradery that is among HBCUs. While we may a talk a lot of garbage to each other, keep in mind that we all have respect for each school and the student that go there. Not only because most schools have pristine reputations, but because we've all shared the same experience for the most part. Its the hardest thing trying to explain the kind of bond that you have with someone from another HBCU if you're around a lot of people that go to majority schools. Namely, because in the end, we know that we can count on each other when the rest turn their backs.
As far as my experience, I wouldn't trade it for the world. It hasn't always been peaches and cream, but it hasn't been a living nightmare either. I have never lived around anything but white people until I came to NC A&T SU, so when I first moved here, it was a real culture shock. Not only had I not lived around black folk, but I was terrified of them. But in due time, I've come to really love my school. I've met too many people to name that I'll still keep in touch with on a constant basis, even twenty years from now. I've even met one or two other people that were essentially in the same boat that I'm in, which suprised me a whole lot. Coming from where I do, I didn't get a whole lot of respect from black at home, but now when I come back and say I attend "A&T" and I'm majoring in engineering, they take a second look. To see little kids aspiring to be where I'm at makes me feel all big and proud.
