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I THE YEAR OF THE UNDERDOG MAN OF THE YEAR and critiques radical movements under white supremacy. I also participate in con versations with people who challenge me in tellectually and surround myself with friends and mentors who are invested in the critical investigation of life. SR: How have you overcome self-doubt re garding your intellect? JM: There is a necessary level of self-doubt that keeps you pressing for the next level. I realize that I will never know it all and that helps to keep me vulnerable in my fight to learn. SR: What have you done to create balance between academics and social activities? JM: I am not sure I have created balance. The academic is social and the social is aca demic. I make no binary distinction between the two. I allow them to exist in harmony, overlap and inform one another. SR: What are your post-graduate aspira tions? JM: Pursue a Ph.D program with a concen tration in African-American Studies or an area of study involving women, gender and sexuality. I am a writer by trade, so I want to continue writing; and eventually, I want to become a tenured professor at Morehouse College. Keith Matter Senior/Philosophy Major Winston Salem, NC SR: What does it mean to be an intellectual? KM: My personal definition of an intellectual is someone who has an insatiable thirst for knowledge—new knowledge. SR: What things do you do to grow and chal lenge your intellectual capabilities? KM: I am a debate team captain here at Morehouse College, and the debate team forms an intellectual community. The tour naments we participate in involve a wide range of topics, so it incentivizes me to learn and know more. Aside from partici pating with the debate team, I also listen to podcasts, read various texts, listen to the words of my grandparents and so on. I do not limit myself to one medium of knowl edge but seek to have as many data inputs as possible. SR: How have you overcome self-doubt re garding your intellect? KM: I have/dealt with the “imposter syn drome" before, which caused me to doubt my accomplishments and my intelligence. Specifically, it caused me to question my ability to debate and thinking I was not as good as I ought to be. Talking with my par ents, coaches, team members and alum has helped. I also approach life with a cup-half- full perspective, which allows me to deal with self-doubt in a positive way. SR: What have you done to create balance between academics and social activities? KM: Interacting with the debate team mem bers and my Mellon Mays Fellows has helped me create balance because they uniquely understand what it takes to balance school and a social life, given that we all have share involvement in similar activities. My girlfriend has also helped bring balance to my life. My humanity comes before my in tellectual ism, so I take care of self first so I can maintain a healthy balance academical ly and socially. SR: What are your post-graduate aspirations: KM: Long-term, either law school, education policy or a Ph.D program with a philosophy focus. I don’t believe I have experienced enough in life to definitively know yet, so I want to explore more first. Short-term, I plan to be an educator for Teach For Ameri ca here in Atlanta for a two year term. Je’ion Alexander Senior/History Major Chesapeake, VA SR: What does it mean to be an intellectual? JA: Thinking out the box. It means to use one’s intellect as a weapon against igno rance and oppression. SR: What things do you do to grow and chal lenge your intellectual capabilities? JA: I take time to read and write. I also have conversations with friends who challenge me to question things. The topics discussed at Crown Forum help to grow and challenge me intellectually as well. SR: How have you overcome self-doubt re garding your intellect? JA: Maintaining faith and self-confidence and knowing that I may not have all the an swers but I can learn to find the answers I need. Also, being in a position as the history club president to inspire and lead others has helped me overcome self-doubt. SR: What have you done to create balance between academics and social activities? JA: Academically, I do what’s possible and necessary. I take breaks from academics |I to manage stress, and spend my free time 1 outdoors, hanging with friends or attending various events on and off campus. SR: What are your post-graduate aspira- 4 tions? JA: I want to teach history at an HBCU or I even a PWI. Wherever \ teach, I want it to be j a place where I am comfortable educating j and accepted. Additionally, I want to create ] a publishing company that publishes schol- j ars representing multiple areas of academic j disciplines. Jordan Mosby Junior/Sociology Major Largo, MD SR: What does it mean to be an intellectual? | JM: To be an intellectual means to think. I think it’s often correlated with pro fessors and aca demic scholars; but to me, it just means to think. I 1 think you use your in tellect when you’re to think something, some idea and it’s depth. Applying the things you know, and your personal expe rience to the idea in front of you, that’s using your intellect. 4 SR: What things do you do to grow and chal- J lenge your intellectual capabilities? JM: School. Morehouse is challenging myil intellect right now and it goes beyond thel classroom. Majoring in Sociology, I’m ableij to discover things about the social world ll and see them in action as soon as I leave | the classroom. Most things I learn are read-;! ily applicable. I think application is the ul-l timate test of your intellect. Being able toil use the things you learn, see, hear and ex-i perience to generate some action or thought process in you that allows you to have ani| impact. Trying to use the things I learn and if experience to become a better person is howfi] I challenge my intellectual capabilities. SR: How have you overcome self-doubt re-1 garding your intellect? f \Ji Jk