What is your definition of the grey area? Would you say you are in it currently?

• “The grey area reminds me of that movie,’Middle of Nowhere’ and I am in nowhere. I’m not specifically at this point..I’m not behind..failing and doing completely horrible. I’m not lost, but I’m also not fulfilling my dream or doing what I’m supposed to be doing. So I’m in between nowhere.”

• “I don’t think I am in the grey area, but I kinda do. So yes and no. I think the universe is showing me this is where you are supposed to be, I don’t know it has provided me with my next steps for me. but I would say I am, even though I’m excited about these next steps. It still, I guess it diverges from where I saw myself being, or technically what I wanted to do. Not completely what I wanna do cause this is still like…it can be on that route. I just don’t think I am there yet.”

Do you believe the grey area is temporary or permanent?

• “Grey area is temporary. Definitely temporary. I think a lot of times, I don’t know, yes and no actually. I think it’s temporary, because you are going to find your way. You’ll figure out where you are suppose to be and the universe will move forward with you. But, I do think it can be permanent, because some people go through life, I’m here now but I still don’t know what I want to do or where I want to be. That’s completely okay, I think most people are like that honestly. I think more people see where life takes them. However, I think that it is also temporary in the sense you will not be stuck in a period of confusion forever unless you allow yourself to be there.”

Why did you decide to go to college?

• “Cause I was trying to get the fuck outta Georgia.”

Was college mandatory in your family?

• “No. My dad suggested it and he wanted us to go to college but it wasn’t mandatory. I think he would have been happy as long as we did whatever we wanted to do. As long as we weren’t bums.”  

How did you view college?

• “I think when you are younger you see these people and like ..you see people in college and you are like this grown person in college. They are amazing, I wanna be like them or whatever. I thought of it more serious, but fun. I was like this some real shit, you gotta get your life. Then when I was there I was kinda like, this is what I wanna do. this is the goals, this is what I need to do to get to the goal to graduate. But I was more focused, I need to survive too, I was working all the time. I also felt like I don’t know. That’s kinda hard. I had a lot of emotions about college. Yea I was working all the time, that was kinda frustrating. I was also in school and I liked what I was doing in school. But I always had a rough time in school. Then after that, I felt like I enjoyed, just being around Howard’s atmosphere I really fucked with. I really just liked being there. I can be sitting in the yard and people watching. I don’t even care for people watching like that, and I don’t even care for people watching. But it felt so good to be there. I was like oh wow, this feels so good and while there, I was like oh professors, was like get your shit.”