Personal Narrative: To Be A Successful Black Woman

Since the beginning of the first semester, my eyes have been opened to a gamut of new paths, ideologies, and possibly the changing of my major. Through discussion with professors and even peers, my perspective of what it means to be a Black woman in search of a higher educations is more clear. Before college, I did not have a set understanding of what my goals were going to be; many of them were generic. I knew I wanted to be successful, but how was going to achieve such a cliché goal, and what it actually meant to be “successful”. Particularly, I was not sure of my major, how I was going to grow as a woman in an historically black college, or how I was going to balance life without parental guidance, but since starting my academia, a lot has changed. A major change that has happened while attending Spelman is my ideology of what it means to be a successful. To me, a successful Black woman was someone who earned her degree, made a lot of money, and was set for life. Through learning, I now know to be successful is to be prideful in your identity. Knowing who you are can be beneficial to your growth in prosperity. Being a Black woman, there are people who will try to shape your identity, but it is up me to find my voice in a Eurocentric world and asserting my purpose and my self identity.
The way I go about certain things have changed. The way I studied has improved majorly in college. In high school, I rarely studied. I would study for the final exam or a midterm, but I realized that would not slide at Spelman. When I first started studying in college, I was focused on how long I studied and not the content of what I was studying. Having the deeper meaning in the work and the context of what I am studying is key. Along the lines of studying comes with changing my procrastination. Procrastination is still an obstacle that I have to overcome, but I am working on changing