MyDoorsAreOpen
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You know the type. In their late 20s or early 30s. Never dropped or failed out. Just... never left.
At the school where I took my science prerequisites for med school, I was in a student activist group with a dude who was quite obviously Indian, but was utterly convinced he was black. I never knew how old he was, but he was definitely older than me, and I was 26 at the time. He had wandered aimlessly through all the humanities departments, in a fruitless search for a department that would put up enough with his something-to-prove about race to grant him a major. He was a drama queen, who left the activist group with a sermon-like speech one day about how and why he was severing ties. He caught me outside class one day. Having no one to eat the lunch I'd brought with, I sat with him. He would not let me go for two whole hours, and took no hint that I didn't want to talk anymore and needed to be on my way. I have no idea A) if and when he will ever graduate B) What awaits him if he does, and most al all, C) who is funding him.
And why.
At the school where I took my science prerequisites for med school, I was in a student activist group with a dude who was quite obviously Indian, but was utterly convinced he was black. I never knew how old he was, but he was definitely older than me, and I was 26 at the time. He had wandered aimlessly through all the humanities departments, in a fruitless search for a department that would put up enough with his something-to-prove about race to grant him a major. He was a drama queen, who left the activist group with a sermon-like speech one day about how and why he was severing ties. He caught me outside class one day. Having no one to eat the lunch I'd brought with, I sat with him. He would not let me go for two whole hours, and took no hint that I didn't want to talk anymore and needed to be on my way. I have no idea A) if and when he will ever graduate B) What awaits him if he does, and most al all, C) who is funding him.
And why.