ABSTRACT

IF my nights were filled with excitement of a sort, my days were quiet enough. The university accepted me as a student, which was more than the students did, and I, often sleepy and always tired, no longer cared. I had come there to get an education and I was getting it. I had no social life on campus; I had no time for it. I let it go at that. No one actively snubbed me. I was not discriminated against. I was just politely ignored, a part of but apart from the student body. And then suddenly all that changed.