Reflecting on the experience the next day, I realized that still more needed to be done.

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You also lobby the university -- as Sotomayor did at Princeton -- to be more accessible and hospitable to people like you by hiring Latino professors, reflecting the Latino experience in the curriculum and providing a support system for Latino students as opposed to admitting them and forgetting them.

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But, what resonates most, when reflecting on my internship experience, is the importance of always giving back.

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Personal incomes are also likely to experience a drag in January and over the coming months, reflecting the fact that most of the increase recorded in December was merely income that had been brought forwards.

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Admission to some programs is based on a point system, reflecting grades from secondary school, subjects from secondary school, age, work experience, and other factors the government deems worthy of reward.

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There is a spiritual as well as practical dimension to this - with ubuntu reflecting the idea that we're part of a long chain of human experience, connecting us to previous and future generations.

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"I knew from my experience that asthma was not the boy's problem but rather it was reflecting a symptom of something that was going on with his digestion, " says Dr. Igor Cetojevic, who worked with Djokovic for a year up until his Wimbledon triumph in 2011.

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