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She was a community college grad, and now she's headed to the most prestigious women's school in the country.

By the way, you mentioned others viewing CCs as being where brown people go to school.  My old classmate is black, grew up poor, and damned if she's not pulling ahead of everyone.  Just goes to show the truth in your point about smart kids finding a way.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

by Drew J Jones (pedobear@pennstatefootball.com) on Tue Jan 17th, 2006 at 07:27:07 PM EST
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"This is where brown kids go to school" is something I heard Sherman alexie say during a talk at Riverside Community College, to stress why he loved talking at CCs.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jan 18th, 2006 at 03:51:23 AM EST
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