Obviously_Stories From My Timeline by Akilah Hughes

Author:Akilah Hughes [Hughes, Akilah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Writing
ISBN: 9781101998908
Google: -4uDDwAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 43595944
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2019-09-24T00:00:00+00:00

The South

WHAT’S BEAUTIFUL ABOUT IT?

Biscuits.

WHAT’S BAD ABOUT IT?

Racism.

College Years

College wasn’t for me. I did it. I got a degree, and I’m better for it—but I wasn’t built for it.

From the street view the campus looks like any other. Old and new brick buildings sit on a large plot of green. The sidewalks splinter into higher and lower paths leading from educational facilities to living quarters. The town is small, quaint, with seemingly no downtown or uptown. Its sheer inoffensiveness is remarkably unremarkable. This would be my home for five years.

Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, was not top on my list of colleges to go to. In fact, though I’d spent my entire life in Kentucky, I didn’t hear of the city or the college until my AP English teacher told me about it senior year of high school. She wasn’t even specifically addressing me.

“It’s my thirty-year college reunion this weekend,” she said. I was busy counting on my fingers to try to figure out how old that must make her, but other students seemed genuinely interested in her life.

“What school did you go to?” Bob asked. I remember it was Bob because it seemed like a weird name for a seventeen-year-old. Still is.

She launched into an eager rant about how great Berea College was. How the tuition was free for low-income students who all work on campus. How the education was top-notch and the school had many famous benefactors. She urged us all to apply there, too.

Only one other girl and I took the time to do that. We both got in. I got into all of the schools I applied to, but only one of them had a price tag of “free,” so that basically sealed the deal. After all, I was only making like $150 a week at Fazoli’s. That’s not even enough for one textbook’s table of contents.

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