Past Projects
The following projects were conducted in the Spring of 2013.
Put it in a Poem
Full tuition, full room and board, even full book spending money.
If my stomach was still growling, I would make it full of doubts.
Doubts about what it meant to be on that scholarship.
A scholarship that meant a completely different experience than that of my peers.
Would I ever come to be comfortable with what I was given? And would I
Accept what my friends were given?
Their aid from the bosom and mine from a once long-fight with the Brown Financial Board.
What am I seen as? A glint of diversity? A new voice to be heard? An example the Dean of the College
Can
Give at a dinner party when she is asked, hey how’s work?
It’s being able to point at a student and say “we brought her here”
But the conversation stops there. After sensationalizing years of budgeting and working to Get Ahead
They want to know no more because then the issue of my family’s income becomes an actual thing
What their emotions see is Guilt or Indignant. Question never makes it through their lips.
To whom it Should Concern:
All I am asking is not to romanticize my experience. Not to think my discomfort with your money is
Any less important than your discomfort with my lack of it.
If something about the way I talk about money bothers you say it, but
Don’t shut me up. Don’t say I’m rude. All I want
Is a voice without a margin.
Full tuition, full room and board, even full book spending money.
If my stomach was still growling, I would make it full of doubts.
Doubts about what it meant to be on that scholarship.
A scholarship that meant a completely different experience than that of my peers.
Would I ever come to be comfortable with what I was given? And would I
Accept what my friends were given?
Their aid from the bosom and mine from a once long-fight with the Brown Financial Board.
What am I seen as? A glint of diversity? A new voice to be heard? An example the Dean of the College
Can
Give at a dinner party when she is asked, hey how’s work?
It’s being able to point at a student and say “we brought her here”
But the conversation stops there. After sensationalizing years of budgeting and working to Get Ahead
They want to know no more because then the issue of my family’s income becomes an actual thing
What their emotions see is Guilt or Indignant. Question never makes it through their lips.
To whom it Should Concern:
All I am asking is not to romanticize my experience. Not to think my discomfort with your money is
Any less important than your discomfort with my lack of it.
If something about the way I talk about money bothers you say it, but
Don’t shut me up. Don’t say I’m rude. All I want
Is a voice without a margin.