Although I am taking Freshman Seminar, I am not a freshman... Understandably some people may think I must have been slacking and waited until my Junior year to sign up for this course. However, this is my third, and final, attempt at completing Freshman Seminar, all because some professors who will remain unnamed insisted on treating this socially minded, but still educational, class as a post-med training seminar or something similar. So when writing this blog, please keep in mind my freshman year was 2 long years ago!
When coming into Howard, I was excited at the vast cultural dynamic the school embraced and quickly fell into the Caribbean Student Association scene. Growing up in Trinidad and Tobago and then suddenly moving to Potomac, Maryland was a culture shock, so hearing familiar voices and observing similar mannerisms was humbling. Freshman week was not as exciting as my roommates didn't "enjoy my company", and so I went to only a little of the events.
I enjoyed all of my classes, and after exploring the courses decided to become a Political Science and Psychology double major after my first year. In this decision, I see how I changed after my first year in that I became my own person, with my own aspirations and goals, and defined myself within Howard. Sure there were boring weeks, where classes became mundane and hardly attended, but there were certainly also extreme drama filled weeks too, and courses that completely changed my outlook on the dynamics life possesses. With concerns to Freshman Seminar, I look most forward to learning about how our African civilizations impacts our education of today. Being in the American school system for all of my life, I never was taught the history of Africa in education, only the biased, European strides.
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