Being Different Is Okay!

They ask you as a Hixson scholar to attend one diversity event during the semester, and to reflect on this. I attended a diversity event at the beginning of the school year, now to ask me what it was called, can't remember. They started off with a skit about hate, and about the differences you'd see at college. It featured different races and gender issues, and asked for crowd input. This allowed us to get involved and put ourselves in the situation of those people. The presenters asked us different questions such as "How would you react in this situation?". The second was based more on sexual identity. Coming to a big university from such a small town really opened my eyes as to what I would be experiencing the next four years. I understood that there would be diversity coming to Ames, especially because I came from a school with all heterosexual, white teens. I was excited to come here and find out what it was like to know other people. This diversity event allowed me to take more out of the experiences I would face over these next few college years, and then be able to make the best of some situations.