Despite implicit and explicit questions of my right to be in an elite space, I'm proud to report that when I graduated, I was the first black woman to earn a PhD in astrophysics in Yale's then 312-year history.
我不知道自己是否能算精英阶层， 但我很骄傲地宣称， 我，一名黑人女性， 获得天体物理学博士学位， 在耶鲁大学312年历史中是第一个。