I got accepted to three diverse schools, and I picked Frostburg, because it gave me the most scholarship money, not aware of how cold it was going to be. I went there thinking, ‘it’s just college,’ even though people were like, ‘oh, it’s cold and may affect you.” I’m just thinking i’m not usually that sick, so it should be fine. When I got there, it was bad.
Then being a predominately white school, nobody knew what sickle cell disease was. So there was no empathy for what I was going through.