A mess

Nothing new. I've always known I have work twice as hard just to get half of what white people have. Papa Pope and my parents clocked that a while ago. This isn't a deterrence though. I'll do what I have to do to get what I want, then I can help my fellow black people.

That is so funny you mentioned that. I have a friend, Will Smith, I know, he worked at a Ford vendor he was not a mechanical engineer but he often was tasked to machine custom tools. Before he knew he was doing everything a ME was doing and was getting almost paid the same. He was offered to go to school, paid for by he company, to get his degree.

Things might be harder, I don't know, I don't trust ThinkProgress, I need their data sets.

All I know is if you are smart, prepared and confident you should have a good chance of landing a job. I used a recruiter out of school because I didn't know how to prepare or carry myself in an interview for a career level job.

They told me things like don't just bring a pad and paper but have it in a nice flip open carrier and don't forget a pen, never say 'I don't know', there are a lot of little things that can improve your chances or sink you in a job interview. There are even power positions for you hands when you talk that will effect their option of you. You might think it's all nonsense but I am telling you now when I go in to a meeting to deal with a customer for a big contract, I read them and I use all these tools to my advantage.

I heard ÜberFacts tweet something similar to this and TBH it's something that needs to be fixed.

Don't be like me. Start searching and applying for jobs mid way through your senior year

This.

And there's immediate pressure to think of graduate school but it almost doesn't seem worth the struggle if it barely helps my chances.