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500. What Exactly Is College For?

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Is It Humbled You a Bit, or It Just Broadened You?

Ruth simmons was a spoiled brat as the youngest person in her family. Went to mexico to study spanish, where people didn't stare at her like she was an alien. "Education introduced me to the reality of who i was in the context of the world"

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