Back in my school days, students were often told, “Study hard: good employment will eventually come following good academic results.” As an international student on scholarship, I held on to that belief strongly until the graduation of my undergrad degree. Unfortunately, the top results on the academic transcript did not make it any easier...
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When my twin brother and sister were 11 months old, I was born. I never knew my father, as he left when I was three weeks old. My mother became a single parent raising three children under one-year-old. We grew up during the 1960s, and our neighborhood was permeated with drugs and many pregnant...
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When most people think of a traditional college student, they envision someone in their late teens or early twenties strolling around campus with coffee in one hand and their computer in the other. However, the National Center for Education Statistics reports that about 74% of college students now fall under one or more of...
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