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'''Langston Hughes''' is a famous [[Harlem]] Renaissance poet who attended the School of Mines (now [[SEAS]]) for the [[1921]]-[[1922]] year. Needless to say, poetry does not go well with problem sets, and he dropped out, though the [[Office of Undergraduate Admissions|admissions department]] likes to tout him as an alum.<ref>[http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/university/ Undergraduate Admissions - Intro to Columbia]</ref> Oh yeah, and his departure may have had something to do with institutional racism too. | '''Langston Hughes''' is a famous [[Harlem]] Renaissance poet who attended the School of Mines (now [[SEAS]]) for the [[1921]]-[[1922]] year. Needless to say, poetry does not go well with problem sets, and he dropped out, though the [[Office of Undergraduate Admissions|admissions department]] likes to tout him as an alum.<ref>[http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/university/ Undergraduate Admissions - Intro to Columbia]</ref> Oh yeah, and his departure may have had something to do with institutional racism too. | ||
| + | His famous poem "Theme for English B" was written for a required course at Columbia: | ||
| + | "The instructor said, | ||
| + | Go home and write | ||
| + | a page tonight. | ||
| + | And let that page come out of you--- | ||
| + | Then, it will be true. | ||
| + | I wonder if it's that simple? | ||
| + | I am twenty-two, colored, born in Winston-Salem. | ||
| + | I went to school there, then Durham, then here | ||
| + | to this college on the hill above Harlem. | ||
| + | I am the only colored student in my class." | ||
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Langston Hughes is a famous Harlem Renaissance poet who attended the School of Mines (now SEAS) for the 1921-1922 year. Needless to say, poetry does not go well with problem sets, and he dropped out, though the admissions department likes to tout him as an alum.[1] Oh yeah, and his departure may have had something to do with institutional racism too. His famous poem "Theme for English B" was written for a required course at Columbia: "The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you--- Then, it will be true. I wonder if it's that simple? I am twenty-two, colored, born in Winston-Salem. I went to school there, then Durham, then here to this college on the hill above Harlem. I am the only colored student in my class."
