I feel guilty when I’m back home, where my closest friends are struggling through community college. Here, I feel uncomfortable and small. I am reminded over and over again not only of my economic status but also that my economic status separates me from other, more fortunate students.
I feel like I should keep silent, because I feel that I have been made silent—I feel small. And because of Harvard, I do feel like a poor student.
Matthew Wozny ’14 is a history and literature concentrator in Leverett House.
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