So I'm a first year college student and I really want to go to Cambridge! I'm pretty sure I have the grades and I've got enough extracurricular **** on my personal statement but I'm really scared...
I genuinely don't know if I'll be able to handle all the white people there.
I know, I know, it sounds racist and whatnot, but I've lived in an area filled with people of colour almost my entire life. And the few times I've been around mostly white people (trips and stuff), they always end up saying something like "well why can't white people say the n-word" or making a wellmeaning but lowkey offensive comment about my cultural clothing. I don't know if I have the energy to deal with white people making comments like that for three years.
I know eventually, I'll have to get used to being around mostly white people and being a minority, but throwing myself in headfirst into a white university whilst being hours away from my family and still carrying a bag load of mental illnesses doesn't sound smart.
Ugh I just don't know what to do.