Now in my junior year at Howard University, I am still managing school work and my illness.

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The idea for Strive came from my experience transferring from a private to a public school for my junior year of high school.

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I'd rather get around on my bike than in a BMW. But to my lasting embarrassment, in my junior year, I traded my friends for a less eccentric crowd.

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Deborah Derrick: While I was an undergrad at Duke, I spent my junior year abroad at the London School of Economics, and there my world was really cracked open.

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My middle son is completing his junior year at the Ohio State University and will graduate next May.

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My 8 year old attends the local junior school (9am start).

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