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It is up to myself to test the waters. I come a family of immigrants and am an immigrant myself and I will be the first generation in my family to go to college. Unlike my fellow peers, I lack the resources and connections. I have never traveled north past North Carolina. I have never been on a college tour. I have never had a private tutor. Some things I do share with, them however, is the fact that I continue to preserve and I do wish to succeed. Now, I’m not trying to be the next immigrant genius, like Albert Einstein, I’d be lucky if I even had a small fraction of the intelligence he possessed. I simply want to know I tried, whether I succeed or fail.

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