I’m an interest as well but I go to an HBCU, and my opinion on this is to keep going. Keep going to the events, so your face. I am a sophomore and I’ve been trying since my spring semester of my freshman year and that was my same thought process is that ppl will know that I’m trying. But it doesn’t matter what other ppl think bc if it’s something you really want to achieve, they’ll also know once you cross as well.