I knew, I knew that wasn't true. But from my area, that's what we saw. I knew that wasn't true, but it's something you always think. And from the first conversation I had with Nik, it was just gone. Not everyone is so lucky.
Freshman year is a time fraught with tension.
Severed from familiar support systems and shoved into a small room with a complete stranger, students can sometimes feel the adjustments are a strain, regardless of race. And collision with a stranger from an unfamiliar background can be jarring. Though overt racial disputes between roommates seem to be rare at Princeton University, the presence of racial tensions can simmer beneath the surface. Then the other interprets it as a racially slanted comment but discovers that the person was baffled to find out how it was taken. And we have found that to be true in both directions.