Study To Learn, Not To Pass: The Exam Is Important, But It’s More Important To Really Learn This Material

As a student of color in STEM, that scene perfectly describes what I think about everyday. Here’s a quick list of everything that I am doing:

I have a 3.71 GPA

I volunteer 10+ hours every week

I am a part-time researcher on campus (at some point I’ll make a post about my research)

I am helping to develop a CubeSat as a part of an team of undergraduate students

and I am developing my own educational outreach student organization to bring more students of color into STEM

and you know what?

I probably still won’t get as far as rich, white students who haven’t worked nearly as hard as I have. I grew up just above the poverty line, so I don’t have the connections that those students have, it sets me apart, and it sets me behind.

The students who have those connections were able to get internships and research positions in high school, without even trying. Meanwhile, I got my first research position half of the way through my second year of college because I worked my ass off during my first year and the first half of this school year. My story is in no way unique. This is the experience of thousands of students of color around the country. We have to work so hard to get half as far as our white counterparts, and it’s just bullshit.

everyone here hates when their posts blow up yet no one fucking hesitates to reblog already popular posts. no one shows that kindness and it's wonderful. a mutual understanding that op dug their own grave by being a top notch clown and that's their problem, not yours

i think the coolest thing would be to see a new color

Millenials, y'all need to step up and vote. The future is yours now. We old folks failed. Vote and run for office, or else give it all away to white dudes like this.

You can still get STD's with condoms on

HPV Syphilis Herpes

There's also gonna be New Horizons/Pluto stamps! Oh my god. Everything is amazing.

The USPS is launching a Star Trek 50th Anniversary stamp set!

Righty Tighty Lefty Loose-y

This never made much sense to me. When you rotate clockwise the top is moving right while the bottom is moving left. When you rotate counter-clockwise the top is moving left while bottom is moving right. It's all about perspective.

i need the kind of job a movie scientist has, the kind where i can sit in a lab by myself all day and do cool genius things and no one bothers me and it’s perfectly acceptable that i have no social skills