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Once, I was trying to explain to my friend and later roommate Mary Cadette how out of place I sometimes felt at Princeton. “It must be like Alice in Wonderland,” she said sympathetically. “Alice who?”
Sotomayor did not know who Alice in Wonderland was and decided to spend her summer reading the children classics to catch up on cultural references. This shows how she is trying to fit in and how limited her cultural experiences have been.

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“When the bottle of champagne was gone, Jenifer said, “You owe me twenty.” I looked at her incomprehensibly. “It's a good bottle,” she said. “You owe me twenty.” I didn't have the money, and I said so.”
This excerpt from the text shows how if it was someone of a higher social class, Jenifer wouldn't have done that. However, she knew that he couldn't afford what he had just drunk. She hadn't offered him champagne out of the kindness of her heart, but because she knew that she wanted to be petty. She wanted to embarrass him.

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“I decided that it was time to leave behind the folks who’d raised me and stand with the people who’d clued me in.”
Kirn is finally realizing what will benefit him in the long run and sticking to that instead of another road that will bring him down.He has been piecing everything together and finally is seeing that the people you grew up with or are closest to you are not always the best and will not want to see you succeed then oppose to those who help you and guide you to be or do your best.

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'We figured out everyone's share of the new  living room"
This means Kirns colleagues decided to share the fee of the new living room, and did not have enough money to pay for the small fee, so his colleagues decided to not let Kirn inside the living room.

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This was the system’s great flaw, and it enraged us.A pure meritocracy, we’d discovered,can only promote; it can’t legitimize. It can confer success but can’t grant knighthood.

He is talking about the rich and how they could make money and give it straight to the kids but the kids are supposed to earn it and not let it be given.They are suppose to make their name and let it be given to them.

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“Our club isn't one of the rich, exclusive outfits, where the pedigreed children of the establishment eat chocolate-dipped strawberries off silver trays carried by black waiters in starched white uniforms, but one that anyone can join, where geeks and misfits line up with plastic plates for veggie burgers and canned fruit salad.”
Kirn talks about the social divides at Princeton. He starts to realize that people of higher class have much more privilege .

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"This was the systems greatest flaw, and it enraged us. A pure meritocracy, we'd discovered, can only promote; it cant legitimize. It can confer success but cant grant knighthood." Kirn realizes the system and how it works at his college and how the poor constantly need to prove themselves while the rich ever need to try.

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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.''

The meaning of this quote is the main majority of students may not feel safe at college, and understanding how race affects that.

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"I belong here and there are several cues and frequent reminders that I am important here.That the cultural history and the culture I bring to this place is valued and is included."

What the author is trying to say is that he thinks that minorities should feel included on campus. They should all be equal no matter their background. A lot of the time, the people who grew up in poorer households don't fit in at top colleges.

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It means : Your dream will always be your dream you just need to believe it and don't give up and its something to complete.

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“Princeton was extremely white and very male. There was
no avoiding the facts,” she writes. “If during the orientation program we’d begun
to feel some ownership of the space, we were now a glaring anomaly—poppy
seeds in a bowl of rice.”

During Michelle Obama's early college years, she noticed a pattern when it came to students on campus. Most of them were white and male, because for a while, and its still like that, white straight men are on top. These people have what we call white privilege. They usually come from more wealthy backgrounds and attend very expensive and prestigious schools.

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"You should try this."

Kirn remembers the last time he was on the bus and got offered drugs, as he is thinking about his education, and how he has matured.

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“It frightened me that had I not reached Princeton, I might never have discovered this; I might have remained a rube forever.”

He is saying that he is not part of Princeton because it’s a school for the rich people.

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‘’This was the system’s greatest flaw, and it enraged us.’’

In this quote Kirn talks about going to a party, and realizing that only rich football players can mate with the pretty girls at Princeton. This society Kirn and V lived in was unfair and enraging.

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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.''
The meaning of this quote is that student don feel safe at college and it may do with there race.

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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.

This means that the minorities usually get the feeling of being left out or judged no matter where or what their doing.This is a problem in today's society and it need to stop.

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‘’I’d learned a lot since I aced the SATs, about the system, about myself, and about the new class the system had created, which I was now part of, for better or for worse. The class that runs things. The class that makes the headlines-that writes the headlines, and the stories under them.’’
He is starting to realize that he can no longer stay playing fair; he has to start making himself known. The only way to make himself known is to become a part of the people that he went into college not wanting to become.

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"But I didn't order any of it"     Kirn is referring to his colleges since she wants Kirn to buy it for her, but Kirn said "But I didn't order any of it"

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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."
When in college you would most likely get a culture shock. There is if only a few of minorities throughout the whole school weather it be professors or the students. This would make you feel so out of place, like you don't belong.

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“This is the system's greatest flaw, and it enraged us. A pure meritocracy, we’d discovered, can only promote: it can legitimize. It can confer success but can’t grant knighthood.”

This quote describes the rich people and them being able to buy their kids into a good college or university. Something other people can’t do because they don't have the money.

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¨I avoided my roomatets and focused on my class work¨This excerpt from the text shows that  he was working hard to acomplsih many things his roommates were not studying and just goofing off.Krin had to work hard to prove that what he was doing could accomplish something and be some one big in life,while his roomates didnt work as hard due to the reason of his roomates having wealthy parents and not having to do anything while there being an outsider not having as much money as some of them and having to work for what he has now.

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My fingers froze on the keys as I read what I was typing:
financial figures of the most well-off at Princeton. This was my first glimpse of trust funds; tax
write-offs and loopholes; summer jobs at Daddy’s firm that paid the equivalent of a year’s
tuition; incomes in the millions, disbursed a half million here, a few hundred thousand for that
the poor guy there.

Sonia grew up in a low or middle-class environment. She had no idea what a trust fund was because she didn't have the privilege to get one. Her parents probably couldn't afford it. She was shocked to find out what this was. This goes to show how much privilege people at the top really have.

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" Michelle Robinson didn’t shy away from her background in her application essay
for Princeton University."
Michelle Obama from the start was different then all the Princeton kids and because of that she showed who she was. She didn't come from a rich family but that didn't stop her from telling the truth she knew what type of people went there all rich,🤬 privileged white kids she would be very different from them.They were white/rich while she was black/poor she knew what she would get from going there because they would think of her as different and less then them but that didn't make her lose her voice it made it stronger.

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“Our club isn't one of the rich, exclusive outfits, where the pedigreed children of the establishment eat chocolate-dipped strawberries off silver trays carried by black waiters in starched white uniforms, but one that anyone can join, where geeks and misfits line up with plastic plates for veggie burgers and canned fruit salad.”
This is when he starts to realize that people of higher class have much more privilege than the lower class. This is all happening in Princeton.

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"Belonging is: I belong here and there are several cues and frequent reminders that I am important here.
That the cultural history and the culture I bring to this place is valued and is included." This is how most minorities would say their experience was if they were lying. Most minorities would say that there experience was probably like an outcast seeing only the janitors, gardeners, and cleaners that look like them.

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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''

This quote means Michelle Obama isn't really supposed to be at that school, she's an underdog, the odds of her or her people making it there wasn't high.

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" I would also advise parents that when they are on college visits to ask questions about the racial composition of the student body and of the faculty and to ask very specific questions about the racial climate."
This explains that people should ask more questions that they don't ask to see how the school or where ever they are trying to get into.If you don't ask questions this leads to people feeling left out and feeling like they don't belong because of all the different cultures and diversities.

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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 quote means that the color of the mans skin is related to the people that are minimum waged workers and the whites are the scholarly educated ones.

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"There she found students like herself, who had arrived on campus unaware of
their disadvantages relative to their classmates. They weren’t afforded the
privilege of SAT prep or AP classes in high school."

Michelle Obama found herself feeling down and treated like all these kids with disadvantages that they didint know they had. She knew these kids didn't know they were at a disadvantage but they were at the bottom of the barrel there.

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"But there are often places of refuge for minority students, and Obama found hers at Princeton's so called Third World Center."
Michelle felt so left out at Princeton because of her race, the only place she really felt comfortable was at the "Third World Center" where there were other minorities.

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''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. It's still not the same thing. ''

College campus's should not put off talking about racial problems when they can talk about class and deal with poverty so much easier than how someone feels when they're left out because they're a minority.  People should not assume someone's class is based on their race.

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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".  This means their are two issues in college, racial discrimination, and poverty college students have experience.

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"Between her own salary from Prospect Hospital and her survivors’ benefits,
which would end very soon, my mother’s income was never more than five thousand dollars a year."
This shows that Sonia didn't grow up like most of the kids in Princeton.She wasn't rich and came from a low income home.So she missed out on a lot because of that she didn't know what most things that kids there did know because of the money problem growing up.

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“In classroom discussions, and even when grading essays, they seemed to favor us over the hard worker, whose patient, sedimentary study habits were ill adapted, I concluded, to the new world of antic postmodernism that I had mastered almost without effort.”
This shows that the students who are higher class are favored more than the ones who actually work hard and it also shows how you get treated when you're in a higher class and when you're not.

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''I CAME TO ACCEPT during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and
understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background,''

This quote means that Sonia's education and knowledge was only limited to her cultural background. This is not good because something that she has no control of controls her education.

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¨In every class, all your professors are white, it might signal to you that smart people of color don’t belong here¨This quote means that many people think only because of your race or how you look like based on your skin how smart you are or how your going to be near the future ,but thats not the case many people with colored skin are likly to be as smart as them maybe even smarter.This shows the racism today can change the way you look at some one.

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"I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural back round."
Sonia accepts the fact that she is less privileged than others because of how she grew up. People with higher class were better prepared and had more benefits.

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I CAME TO ACCEPT during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I’d feared.

The author accepts the differences and judgments of being on a campus and knows the feeling of being the odd one out.

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‘’This was the system’s greatest flaw, and it enraged us.’’
This quote means that students don't feel safe and understand how race can affect that.

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"But there are often places of refuge for minority students, and Obama found
hers at Princeton’s so-called Third World Center. As she writes, it “quickly
became a kind of home base for me. It hosted parties and co-op meals. There
were volunteer tutors to help with homework and spaces just to hang out.” Here she doesn't belong with the other kids who are rich and have everything given to them but instead with the kids who are poor minorities like her showing her experience was being with those around her outcasted by the rich.

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"The common room had evolved into a concentrated version of what the whole campus had come to represent for me: a private association of the powerful that I've been permitted on a day pass."
This quote describes how he does not fit in with the rich kids. He had to pay to use the common room which is completely unfair especially since his roommates know he does not have a lot of money.

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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''
Michelle Obama isn`t supposed to be there because her odds weren't as high.

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"But there are some things even a head start can’t prepare students for. “Princeton was extremely white and very male. There was
no avoiding the facts.”

This quote means that the lower income black students are looked differently because theirs not much of them

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“My family’s estate," said Leslie "Behold, poor serf! Behold a power you may never know.”   With that he ran back to his car and drove away.

Lesie knew that he was poor and that he will not have those luxaries and made fun of him because hes poor and that cause him to be sad and knew that he was right.

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" Or when the only people who look like your are cutting the grass, emptying the trash or frying the fries in the food court.."
This quote means that the only people that look like them are people doing the jobs nobody else wants. It can be discouraging because you see no higher class people that look like you.

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"I had no idea how circumscribed my life had been,
confined to a community that was essentially a village in the shadow of a great metropolis with
so much to offer, of which I’d tasted almost nothing." This shows how instead of being able to experience what other privileged kids could she was caged inside a world where anything available was cheaper and she couldn't afford the rich kid stuff.

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The author writes, "...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."

In other words, seeing those with who you share the same ethnicity, ideals, and traditions with are also the ones cleaning up after those who are above them.  Seeing that makes you feel less and if you are even capable of becoming successful in a society where you are seen as less for the color of your skin and ethnic background.

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"Until I arrived at Princeton, I had no idea how circumscribed my life had been."
This sentence is describing how she was circumcised (restricted from the rich) in Princeton by the rich kids.

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"We know students often come to college from incredibly segregated residential patterns and K-12 schools. So they don’t have a whole lot of preparation for interacting with people different from themselves." The author is saying that there are lots of ways that the system racially separates people. This includes houses, neighborhoods, and schools.

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"That acceptance, though, didn’t make me feel less self-conscious and unschooled in the company of classmates who’d had the benefit of much more worldly experience."

In this quote Sonia is describing how she got accepted into the school but didn't make her less self-conscious.

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''Even today,'' Obama writes, ''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.'' And in her experience, ''it's a lot to ask.''

Because minority students are not white and usually not rich it puts a lot of pressure on them to be better than the people that have money so that they can prove their worth.

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''I was enough of a realist not to fret about having missed summer camp, or travel abroad, or casual familiarity with the language of wealth. I honestly felt no envy or resentment, only astonished at how much of a world there was out there and how much of it others already knew.''
Sonia Sotomayor felt clueless compared to her classmates when it came to the places she's traveled to. Her classmates,  because of their wealth were able to explore many places around the world that fueled their education. She was surprised at how much her classmates already knew about the world. Although she must have been bummed when she found out that most of her classmates had that opportunity and she didn't, she wasn't jealous of them.

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''For black students such as Obama, affirmative action was a constant elephant in the room, she writes''. This means their was lots of racial discrimination Obama has experienced.

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''Between her own salary from Prospect Hospital and her survivors’ benefits, which would end very soon, my mother’s income was never more than five thousand dollars a year''. This means Sonia was struggling to support her career due to the lack of money.

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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."
This shows that most people who are minorities will most likely feel like they don't belong whenever they enter a class or it could be any place and this is not a good thing because people wouldn't like feeling like they don't belong.

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"Princeton was extremely white and very male. There was no avoiding the facts."
The meaning of this is that in Princeton there wasn't much people of color or females, it was mostly white people and males so the percent of her getting into that school was very low but she still got in.