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"All institutions spend varying degrees of effort to assure there is a diverse student body in composition but when you walk on to the campuses, even racially diverse ones, there are pockets of ethnic clustering and racial segregation, not just among students of color but white students too". This agrees with what what Michelle Obama has claimed. Universities and colleges are still very divided along racial and ethnic lines, despite what the schools attempt to do.

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"Even today with white students continuing to outnumber students of color on college campuses, the burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students". Her point is that things have changed that much in the last couple decades. It still falls on students of colors to conform to the white college ideal.

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Kirn realized as a student at the Ivy Leagues that much of what his peers had they didn't earn. He could never reach the same social status they held.

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¨If my buddies from Minnesota could see me now, they wouldn't have a clue whom they were seeing, and I also bewildered wouldn't be able to help them¨. ¨This lucky convergence of intellectual fashion and my literacy restored my pride and emboldened me socially. Maybe I belonged at Princeton after all.¨
This means that going to college has change him because at first he is unsure about Princeton but  now he thinks that he is starting to fit in.

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¨When  in every class you enter, you are the only one or among only a few of your racial group in that class, it might signal you that you don't belong there.¨ This is a perspective of one of the minorities which relates to most minorities making them not feel like they belong there.

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"When in every class you enter, you are the only one or among only a few of your racial group in that class, it might signal to you that you don’t belong."
It means that you might feel a way of being the only kind of person you are and feeling left out.

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When Michelle Obama was in Princeton she felt like she didn't belong there but she felt good when she was at the Third World Center were the minorities students would stay at.

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¨Or when the only people who look like you are cutting the grass, emptying the trash or frying French fries in the food court, that might suggest to you that my people are not thought of as professorial or professional.´´
This means that when people are seeing you do something else that is not professional they are gonna thing of you as non professional.

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“you could almost read the scrutiny in the gaze of certain students and even professors,” she writes.
It's saying that you could almost see how certain students and professors treat each other differently.

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"When in every class you enter, you are the only one or among only a few of your racial group in that class,
it might signal to you that you don’t belong. Or if in every class, all your professors are white, it might
signal to you that smart people of color don’t belong here. Or when the only people who look like you are
cutting the grass, emptying the trash or frying French fries in the food court, that might suggest to you
that my people are not thought of as professorial or professional." The meaning of this quote is that sometimes when your in a class, does not matter what age your are, you can feel like an outsider it can be how smart you are or the color of your skin or from what race you are.

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“Instead of filling in the blanks, I wanted to be blank and be filled in.”
This means he wants to start over and rewrite his story.

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"My parents sent checks now and then, but not for much; they lacked any sense of the cost of living at Princeton. My phone bills alone consumed most of their remittances,freezing me out of any real social life and limiting my wardrobe.

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“We talk as though we’ll be together forever, though I’ve always known better.” I think the meaning is that just because your close with someone for a period of time, doesn’t mean it’s gonna last.

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“I’m always segregated in classes. I’m like the only black male in there, always, usually, most of the time,” he wrote. “I don’t belong here at all.”
Tavaris Sanders a black student at Connecticut College does not want to be there anymore because he is always in segregated classes and is the only black in those classes.

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"Less than 8 percent of the undergraduate students at Princeton were black, and it wasn’t exactly known as a mecca for low-income students. But her essay worked, and in the fall of 1981, she left Chicago for Princeton, New Jersey"

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¨The summer before I left to Oxford, I found myself back home, drinking beer with a high school friend in a pickup truck parked next to a river.¨
This means that he stared drinking later on in the story and experienced changed.

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"Instead of filling in the blanks. I wanted to be blank and be filled in."
This means that he wanted to start his life over and begin a new one.

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"More than three decades later, with her own undergraduate years firmly in the past, Michelle Obama's struggles as a black student at Princeton are eerily similar to the experiences of students today." This means that sadly not much has changed and the things that they went through didn't change as the years progressed.

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"Remedial courses have been known as dumpsters of low expectations and disproportionately dumpsters of students of color. So you are doing away with that version of the dumpsters of low expectations."

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"When in every class you enter, you are the only one among your racial group in that class, it might signal you that you don't belong there."
This means that in every class that a black student enters there are most of the time going to be the minorities in the class. This will most of the time make them feel like they don't belong there and feel left out.

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"I'm always segregated in classes. I'm like the only black male in there, always, usually, most of the time," he wrote. "I don't belong here at all."
Tavaris Sanders was a black student attending Connecticut College but he feels he doesn't belong there because he is usually the only black student in his classes so he feels segregated.

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“I’d Learn a lot since I’d aced the SATs, about
the system, about myself, and about the new
class the system has created , which I was
now part of, for better or for worse. The class
that runs things.”

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"One day I looked down at a booklet filled with questions concerning synonyms and antonyms and the meeting times of trains on opposite tracks, and the next thing I knew I was opening thick envelopes from half the colleges in the country."

This means that he didn't really expect time to fly by so soon, and that he was on his way to 'success.'

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"I'm not going to say it is any less or more important than race but it's certainly not the same thing. It's so much easier for institutions to deal with class and deal with poverty than it is to name racial problems, racial realities... Yet, it annoys me actually when people use class as a proxy for race."
This means that no matter what it is still not the same thing, institutions are being lazy and dont want to focus on the racial issues.

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"Or if in every class, all your professors are white, it might
signal to you that smart people of color don’t belong here.
I feel like this means that many people of color feel like they don't belong there because of the color of their skin. Also, just because all the professors are white doesn't mean only white people are smart.

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“Someday we’ll be ranked. Someday we’ll be screened and then separated.”
I think this means that they will all be separated at some point based on their ability/success.

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“I’m always segregated in classes. I’m like the only black male in there, always, usually, most of the time,” he wrote. “I don’t
belong here at all.”
I think this means that at Princeton there were a lot less black people than there were white people. Also, that many black people could feel like they don't belong there at all.

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His research
on the struggles and successes of young black and Latino men in college is much cited and he founded a
University of Pennsylvania center that studied such issues.

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"For black students such as Obama, affirmative action was a constant elephant in
the room, she writes. Though they knew they were qualified, “you could almost
read the scrutiny in the gaze of certain students and even professors,” she
writes." I believe this means that Black students always had to take action or sacrifice more than white students.

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For black students such as Obama, affirmative action was a constant elephant in
the room, she writes. Though they knew they were qualified, “you could almost
read the scrutiny in the gaze of certain students and even professors,” she
writes. And the practice of affirmative action recently received a renewed wave
of scrutiny as Harvard University, where Obama’s daughter Malia is now a
sophomore, is being sued for allegedly discriminating against Asian American
applicants.

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" "Come on," one says. "A sip." "I'm sorry. No." And so I go to college, and they don't." "
This means that there is always going to be people trying to pressure you into doing stuff you are not supposed to.

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"And the practice of affirmative action recently received a  renewed wave of scrutiny as Harvard University, where Obama’s daughter Malia is now a sophomore, is being sued for allegedly discriminating against Asian American applicants."
This means that its not only African Americans being discriminated.

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"We want to measure the extent to which students feel a strong sense of inclusion and belonging on campus, and an understanding how that varies by racial group. And we are interested in the extent to which students interact meaningfully across racial differences." This means that all racial groups feel like they are not a part of the school, and they feel segregated.