reflection college: campuses bustling with new people, new hobbies, and new outlooks on life, and what people deem to be the best four years of one's life — how can we play a part in this? It can be a nurturing haven for growing and learning; for you to meet new friends who bring out the best in you; for you to pursue the ideas that feed your soul; for you to confide in experts with all the worries in your life; for you to learn from your failures and for you to practice rebounding. For four short but memorable years, college protects us from the "real world" outside; from the unnerving permanency of catalogued mistakes; from the idea of "bad ideas" and discouraging that's impossible 's; from the realistic attitudes that settle in with adulthood; from the inability to be spontaneous and to challenge societal norms But what if it isn't a haven but instead a reflection of our world; of our society's lasting prejudices and prolonged inequity; of our society's vicious cycles of pre–entitled opportunities; of our society's skewed views of superiority and inferiority; of our society's biased tunnel vision for STEM and CS; and of our society's blurred vision of marginalized peripheries?
— how can we play a part in this?
she is a frosh planning to major in product design or mechanical engineering