Biotechnology Course Analysis

During my sophomore year of high school, I engaged in our school's signature Intro to BioTechnology semester course. Usually the class would incorporate one guest speaker per week to inform us with a presentation on a topic, ranging from biochemical engineering to how virtual reality technology can be applied to the medical field. Overall it was a fun and fulfilling class. One Thursday morning I dragged myself out of my bed to get to my first class BioTech. I was hopeful for an easy day, but once I arrived and class commenced my teacher introduced the day's speaker, he was a diplomat for a scholarship and job opportunities foundation exclusively for African American students. Addressing the entire class he spoke, but in reality his only audience …show more content…
Clenching my hand in annoyance with the realization that my morning would be squandered with this information that was not only useless but impossible for most of my peers to ever use. Sitting back in my plastic blue chair I pondered to myself about the overarching effects of this type of preferential treatment rooted in race. All he managed was to segregate the class not literally, but metaphorically by introducing to our minds that there was a difference, because If there wasn't special scholarship would be fruitless. This shoved me into the white group in my mind and others into their respective ethnicities it made me feel separated from my fellow classmates. After an hour and half his presentation ended and so did the class. After the class ended the speaker stayed to answer questions for the students while waiting for the class after mine to arrive. One kid who I remember and believed to be Hispanic went to the speaker and asked him for one of the pamphlets he handed out to the two qualifying students covering the varying opportunities. Walking slowly past them, me and others could hear the speaker tell him he doesn't need one because none of what's in it applies to him. This experience was one of the most annoying and confusing, I ever witnessed during my high school