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Bashir Ali

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STUDENT VOICE: From skipping class to Summa Cum Laude

Avatar photo by Bashir Ali May 22, 2017April 8, 2021

Thirty-five years ago, when I graduated from John F. Kennedy High School in Paterson, New Jersey, my parents gave me two options: go to college or get a job. Although I was deeply unmotivated, I enrolled in Passaic County College where I excelled in English, psychology and sociology and did well in math and science. […]

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