Actually, Dearie, you don't have "the wealth" to attend an expensive, "elite" college. Your parents do. Further, you are lucky enough to be born in a nation where women can go to school, walk around without a male, family member escort, shop, attend social functions, etc., and not be someone's property, or having to dodge bullets, or have acid thrown in your face, or be gang raped, or many other unpleasant experiences most people (not only "womyn") face. There's food in the stores, a roof over your head at night, heat in winter & AC in summer, clean water, sanitation services, and excellent medical care for you. So, stop whining (or, at least STFU) about your burdens and guilt. Your burdens are small and your guilt is petty.

Well fucking put.

Wfjag +1000

Let's see what you do with this "privilege" cupcake. Lots of people started off w/less and accomplished much.

Most of the "Vietnamese boat people" will not talk about their childhood experiences yet they put that experience behind them, went to school, got jobs, had families, and enjoyed their freedoms here.

The worst part is, assuaging her guilt will eventually require that a whole lot of people who don't have her family money or connections pay more taxes and have fewer freedoms, so she can pat herself on the back for being an agent of "hope and change".

Sounds like (1) bragging, by someone who has no other way to attract attention to herself, and (2)tepid, platitudinous SJW posturing by someone eyeing a quasi-public-sector career path.

This is the sort of thing people write when they have no mission, and nothing else to say. At some level they know that, but hope connections and a bit of luck will bear them aloft as long as they build networks, stay sociable, affect concern, and don't screw it up by getting in their own way.

However, I also struggle to navigate a sense of guilt or shame for being one of the lucky people able to enjoy all the resources and benefits of attending this elite institution.

I don't imagine she feels to bad that she'd throw it all over for SUNY Fredonia and let someone more worthy take her place at Barnyard.

Regarding the Vietnamese boat people: I had lunch with a Vietnamese gent a few years ago. He told me it took three tries to finally escape his country. The first try, the guy next to him was shot dead by police before their boat launched. The second try, their group was spotted as they tried to get to their boat. He escaped by swimming away and hiding with sympathetic villagers. The third try, at the very end of their water supply, he and his group finally reached the Malaysian coast.

However, I also struggle to navigate a sense of guilt or shame for being one of the lucky people able to enjoy all the resources and benefits of attending this elite institution.

And all the people who could not afford "this elite institution" will feel so much better knowing that you feel guilty about it.

And, dearie, be sure and mention in all your conversations what an "elite institution" you attended in college. That way, we'll all know just who special you really are, at least until we run into someone who went to college up Boston way at a little private school in Cambridge. Lordy, what bores those folks are.

There's humble and there's bragging - and then there's humblebragging.

I hope her struggle doesn't manifest in self-destructive behaviors, such as cutting or prescription drug abuse. Trying to escape the guilt of a happy life can be soul-wrenching.

I had two intern candidates-both University of Texas students- cancel their interviews today, less than two hours before their scheduled interview times. This is for well-paying internship. People came in from other cities and re-arranged schedules to talk to these girls. They were both "diversity" candidates.

I fucking hate young people.

I suspect it isn't the young but the diversity that you hate Ahw. I know plenty of young people who would never have done that. But none of them qualify as diversity hires.

"I hope her struggle doesn't manifest in self-destructive behaviors, such as cutting or prescription drug abuse. "

No worries. She can check into a swanky country-club rehab clinic for a couple of months. And when she returns to school, I'm sure her professors will let her slide on the work she missed. Helping the disadvantaged, y'know.