Last weekend was really, really fun! I took a road trip with
my Ethos sisters to the Black Solidarity Conference. The BSC is an annual event
at Yale University at which students from all over the country gather to talk,
to expand their horizons, and to make each other think. Beyond that, everyone
is networking, publicizing events and causes, and just having fun. The
conference isn’t cheap, but none of us paid full price – Wellesley helped us
out.
So, we rented a van and SANG (caps means we sang LOUDLY)
during the two and half hour drive from Wellesley, Massachusetts, to New Haven,
Connecticut. We stayed on Yale’s campus and ate in their pizza joints.
My Ethos sisters! I'm not in this picture, I'm taking it, which is why they're smiling so brightly.
The workshops put on as a part of the conference were
superb; they revolved around the theme Progress
is Personal: Erasing Complacency, Embracing Our Purpose. I heard several great
speakers explore the topic and talked about it with other students. The
highlight of the weekend for me and many others was listening to the keynote
speaker, the author, scholar, and professor, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson.
A photo of Michael Eric Dyson from blogspot.com
Not everything he said was “safe”, or politically correct,
but all of it made me think. That’s one part of college life that I really
appreciate and that I think Wellesley College supports – opening your mind to
new ideas and not being afraid to see things a new and challenging way.