# @dailycollegian on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2024-02-27T16:00:28.000+00:00
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Despite feeling “just as deserving as every other student” at Penn State, Serenity Myers said she feels pressure to keep up academically.

“I don't feel uncomfortable, but I do feel like I have to work twice as hard as my white peers,” Myers, a second-year studying political science and African American studies, said. “I have to make myself stand out other than being the Black kid on campus.”

Recently, a new report from the Center for Collegiate Mental Health found links between discrimination and mental health across 195 colleges and universities.

“(It’s) not just a Black student experience at Penn State or a Black student experience at a (predominantly white institution). That's just the Black experience in America,” she said.

Read more about Black Penn State students experiences at the link in our bio.

📰: reececoren 
📸: Ryan Bowman
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