The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/strength/)
Underrepresented minority students and faculty reflect on their experiences and Cornell’s efforts to address the challenges they face in academia.
Dear Freshman Mel,
There are so many beautiful days, so many amazing people, and so many incredible opportunities at this school. Over the next four years, you’ll meet your best friends and live some of the best days of your life. But this letter is not for those days. This is the letter for the bad days, the times when it seems like exactly nothing is working out. These are the things I wish I knew earlier that carried me through the best and the worst:
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