My Black College Experience, Again!
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Posted By: Brian McCoy on February 06, 2008 My Black College Experience, Again! Well, I'm sitting here at 4:00am drowsy and not able to sleep due to the change in sleeping schedule. Most people wonder why I talk so much about how my experience at a historically white institution is different from one at an HBCU. Well, at TSU I finally feel somewhat in a company with like-minded individuals. Young, black, success-driven, down to earth, aware students is what I've found at this University (In My Grad Program). While at the other university many of the black students lacked awareness of who they were and what their purpose actually was. Didn't know about the slave trade, they weren't knowledgeable about the more militant Martin Luther King Jr. Not only this, but in conversations with many of the students here at TSU they have had a much broader career in the industry than the average graduate of my undergraduate program at my previous white University. They all seem as knowledgeable, and even more knowledgeable than that many of the students of the program I graduated from. Every student has their own way of presenting ideas and making critical analysis that makes them uniquely black. I am academically experiencing a better program and overall better experience at this HBCU. While in class, everything takes race and social status into consideration when analyzing issues. I have already felt challenged and have not been here but 3 weeks. Most are prous to go here, except those that have trasferred from Prairie View...BOOOOOOOOO!!..lol Don't work at Wal-Mart for 4 years during undergraduate studies while at Miles College and then blame the school for you not having a job after graduation. You have no experience to be someone's junior associate in a marketing firm. Don't go to UAB and party and expect the UAB brand name to promise you a job. There are many 2005 UAB graduates still waiting tables for cell phone bill money. Your destiny is not determined by the institution you attend or even attending one at all, but by the nurturing and the efforts you make during your studies will ultimately bring more value to your degree and to your career. B.McCoy If you enjoyed this article, Join HBCU CONNECT today for similar content and opportunities via email! |
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Brian McCoy
From Docena, AL Texas Southern University class of 2009 Member Since November 2002 |
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