Being from a high school where 60% of the student population was a minority, I had never felt out of place or literally like a minor, but after my first few weeks of classes, I realized why my ethnicity was a minority. OSU has a 3% Latino population, which has not grown in about 3 years. I'm not sure whether the outreach is misplaced or tuition is too costly, but unless a minority is able to find a group accepting of their culture and ideas, they are most likely to transfer, as I almost did. While this disconnect and isolate was taking place, I was also struggling in classes. My "honors" and "AP" classes did not prepare me for college and I had no clue how to actually study material and create my own ideas and opinions on if the author was write or wrong. In high school I had always trusted the author was correct, therefore when one of my first professors asked, "Do you agree with this authors
Being from a high school where 60% of the student population was a minority, I had never felt out of place or literally like a minor, but after my first few weeks of classes, I realized why my ethnicity was a minority. OSU has a 3% Latino population, which has not grown in about 3 years. I'm not sure whether the outreach is misplaced or tuition is too costly, but unless a minority is able to find a group accepting of their culture and ideas, they are most likely to transfer, as I almost did. While this disconnect and isolate was taking place, I was also struggling in classes. My "honors" and "AP" classes did not prepare me for college and I had no clue how to actually study material and create my own ideas and opinions on if the author was write or wrong. In high school I had always trusted the author was correct, therefore when one of my first professors asked, "Do you agree with this authors