How I Overcame the Obstacles to Graduate School

"I look at me, Chris. Here's my narrative. I'm the son of a single immigrant mother that lived and died a secretary," he says. "My household was never more than $40,000." He went to UCLA and Berkeley for a total tuition, all seven years, of $7,000. The only thing he learned at UCLA was how to make bongs out of common household items. 'When you're not on the grind, who do you spend your time with? When you're not in your foxhole?'"

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