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Although I still can't look at a fruit fly without cringing just a little, I went on to take his biochemistry class and excelled.
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This week, I went to Memphis, Tennessee, where I spoke to the graduating class of Booker T.
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The day that I decided I wanted to live, I went back to school, made straight As, graduated at the top of my class, on the National Honor Society, became the first person in my family on either side, to graduate from college.
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This might be because I went to a very small high school with a graduating class of 13 or because I like to explore topics by asking questions.
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When I went to grade school in a working class neighborhood in the 1950s, there was one kid in our class of 40 whose parents were divorced.
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So I became class president in middle school and went on to attend Lowell High School in San Francisco where I continuously was challenged academically, yet given a solid foundation for a commitment to lifelong learning.
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As the years went by, I moved from Montreal to an upper-middle-class suburb of Boston for the sixth grade.
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By no means a way to puff myself, I would like to let you know that I grew up in an average middle-class family with no relatives who were professionals or even went to college.
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