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Community College, Beyond the Bias

My path was hardly the “traditional” college student’s story.

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What I Wish I Knew as a First-Generation Biology Student

The culmination of my four years at university left me with one piece of paper, and I felt robbed.

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Becoming the woman I want to become through love and science

I will be the first member in my family to earn a PhD degree. However, graduate school was not in my parents’ plans when they enrolled me in an excellent, yet expensive, private school in Mexico City.

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