Langston Hughes
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."
