Yeah, so many feelings about this. My dad has a BSN bc the military sent him to school & my mom was a non-trad pt student, but still has a BA. So, while neither of them knows the system (one ex: I struggled majorly with how to apply for financial aid) I’m def not first-gen.
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Replying to @cakrolik
My mom and brothers went through some level of higher ed, and stopped at BAs/diplomas. And yeah, grad school is a mess of figuring stuff out. But claiming first gen academic is grasping at wanting to be disadvantaged and it is OF COURSE coming from white folks.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @cakrolik
And all it does is centre the conversation around them and obfuscate what first gen college student means.
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Replying to @kataplexis @cakrolik
Yeah. Also worth noting that when I had specifically confronted this person about this a few months back they just doubled down. And they keep doing so it looks like.
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The claim is, apparently, that because they didn’t have academic parents it meant they didn’t know how to navigate academia period, namely, things like citing your undergrad dissertation or asking questions, if I recall.
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Replying to @kataplexis @cakrolik
That’s the thing. When I worked for an insurance broker offering insurance to students, I met people who were older than myself yelling at me on the phone because I didn’t personally explain a line on the pamphlet when it was explained on our website.
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Every person who got angry with me was a white student. I was a student myself at the time and there were problems with the insurance we had but so many “issues” were them not reading the leaflet or checking the website.
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