Posted on 06/26/2018 10:46:11 AM PDT by simpson96
Former first lady Michelle Obama told first-generation college freshmen to surround themselves with a community to help them survive college.
Mrs. Obama was the first in her family to attend college. She said: "Finding a cohort for yourself and starting to build your community is going to be important. College wasn't meant to do alone."
She spoke at the fifth annual Beating the Odds summit. Reach Higher, an education initiative launched by Mrs. Obama during her husband's presidency, partnered with Twitter and Handshake, a college-to-career network, for the daylong workshop. It included a celebrity panel with La La Anthony from the Starz show "Power" and Daveed Diggs from the blockbuster musical "Hamilton."
Mrs. Obama, 54, who attended Princeton University, remembered how odd she felt her first time on the campus. "It was like a whole new language," she said. "I had never sat in a lecture, I didn't know what a syllabus was."
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I see your point.
“I didn’t know what a syllabus was”
Same thing it meant in high school. She obviously had been accepted into college based on her skin color as she was too ignorant otherwise.
‘College Wasn’t Meant to Do Alone’
Gee...no one told me... no one held MY hand.
Ah, another example of a glittering jewel of colossal ignorance.
Thankfully, EVERY African-American I know is really smart and has earned degrees in disciplines whose entrance requirements would prevent Dorkbama the Muslim eunuch quota boy and his never had a real job wife from disgracing their classrooms.
What the hell did you do in High School, ya dumb broad?!?!?!
We tried your version of the dream let me tell you it sucked not only for us but you and your husband turned the world into ninny suckers thank all that's good that is over so toddle off and find an anthill to crush or another man to dominate i hear jeb bush is free these days
So getting advice from a kook actor and a gay guy is the answer for these kids? No wonder they are so troubled.
“...Hey mooch where is the old man???...”
Hiding from the prospect of an orange jump suit....we can only hope.
,my democrats need a village to raise their kids, to go to college, and on and on
MANY
Problem solved.
Moron
She got into Princeton, how?
So dumb she didnt even know what a syllabus was.
She can’t even use proper english.
“College wasn’t meant to do alone.”
Really. That’s not even close to coherent.
It’s a lie, what she said, akin to “It takes a village”, but it should be “College wasn’t meant TO BE DONE alone.”
We had them (syllabuses/syllabi) in high school - what the hell was she doing in high school that she didn’t know that word yet got into Princeton?
Mandatory military service would cure a lot of what ails this fragile generation of infantile pu**ys.
Yes, and apparently he was the President of the Harvard Review; but, never wrote an article for the publication --- which is unheard of.
Yup mooshell, it’s easier to cheat and steal in a group.
My youngest daughter took AP English classes in HS. The HS was a Catholic HS. Anyway, she landed in a Junior level English class in her Freshman year and she was amazed at the students sitting in that class who didn't know basic stuff, that she had learned in Jr. High and HS. Public schools simply do not teach kids anything -- as far as I can tell.
The "stylish" Michelle.
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