Freshman Seminar has been an interesting experience for me. When I thought of a seminar class, I was under the impression that we would just be learning about how to adjust to college, and different ways to benefit ourselves, as students. Freshman Seminar was so much more than that. We learned about so much more than just how to manage our time, or be college students, which we hadn’t been used to. The first six weeks were a time where I could learn more about my race. Each lesson taught me things that I had never heard about before. One of the lectures that I enjoyed most was when Dr. Benjamin spoke to us about the Human Genome. She was there to stress to us the importance of being Black and the fact that it was our time to change the way things were and to excel and surpass all obstacles. This course was able to help me to increase my esteem as a Black person. It also educated me more on different topics. The trip to the African Burial Ground was able to teach more about what occurred in this nation that I live in. I felt so much more educated from a class that didn’t even fall under a specific discipline. I always wondered about the amount of work that I was putting into a class that was Pass or Fail and only worth one credit, but I believe that might have been worth it for the amount that I was able to learn.
Shayna McCormack
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