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Dawn Loggins Overcomes Homelessness to Attend Harvard

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Dawn Loggins Overcomes Homelessness To Attend Harvard - The Frisky

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Her troubled parents, plagued by poverty and drug abuse, had abandoned her, and Dawn was left homeless. She was forced to rely on the kindness of friends and school faculty for a place to stay. She got a job at her high school as a janitor to support herself and continued to apply herself in school. And it paid off: Loggins was accepted to Harvard University’s class of 2016. “If there is anybody at all who has a dream,” Dawn told a local TV station,”then they can definitely make it happen. There are no excuses. It depends on you and no one else.”

When this young lady finds herself, in a few years, within the top 1%, no one will be able to say that SHE didn't earn it. To me, this is the story of America- the land of opportunity. Hard work does pay off. She deserves the monetary fruit that a Harvard education will bring.

(I used the shorter, newer link above to comply with BN rules. Below is the longer version, dated May 1.)

Homeless girl makes it to Harvard | north, carolina, college - Gaston Gazette
 
Dawn Loggins Overcomes Homelessness To Attend Harvard - The Frisky

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When this young lady finds herself, in a few years, within the top 1%, no one will be able to say that SHE didn't earn it. To me, this is the story of America- the land of opportunity. Hard work does pay off. She deserves the monetary fruit that a Harvard education will bring.

(I used the shorter, newer link above to comply with BN rules. Below is the longer version, dated May 1.)

Homeless girl makes it to Harvard | north, carolina, college - Gaston Gazette

Great for her... but sucks to be the 99.9999999999999999999999% who did not make it because of poverty and other issues.
 
Dawn Loggins Overcomes Homelessness To Attend Harvard - The Frisky

Excerpt:



When this young lady finds herself, in a few years, within the top 1%, no one will be able to say that SHE didn't earn it. To me, this is the story of America- the land of opportunity. Hard work does pay off. She deserves the monetary fruit that a Harvard education will bring.

(I used the shorter, newer link above to comply with BN rules. Below is the longer version, dated May 1.)

Homeless girl makes it to Harvard | north, carolina, college - Gaston Gazette

I always like it when a public school student makes it, particularly when they have had a challenging life

Socialist policies save another child!!
 
Great for her... but sucks to be the 99.9999999999999999999999% who did not make it because of poverty and other issues.

They should work harder, just like this girl, then.
 
They should work harder, just like this girl, then.

It doesn't work for everyone. Some who work hard and have luck can make it through. Everyone who works hard cannot make it through. And as the system stands fewer and fewer folk can make it through. As such stories like the one you posted shall become increasingly infrequent.
 
Dawn Loggins Overcomes Homelessness To Attend Harvard - The Frisky

Excerpt:



When this young lady finds herself, in a few years, within the top 1%, no one will be able to say that SHE didn't earn it. To me, this is the story of America- the land of opportunity. Hard work does pay off. She deserves the monetary fruit that a Harvard education will bring.

(I used the shorter, newer link above to comply with BN rules. Below is the longer version, dated May 1.)

Homeless girl makes it to Harvard | north, carolina, college - Gaston Gazette

Hasn't "payed off" yet if you're still in school. Come back in 2020 and then tell us how hard work has "payed off".

They should work harder, just like this girl, then.

Yeah we should bring child labor back, all children should be janitors.
 
It doesn't work for everyone. Some who work hard and have luck can make it through. Everyone who works hard cannot make it through. And as the system stands fewer and fewer folk can make it through. As such stories like the one you posted shall become increasingly infrequent.

What story? The story isn't even over, she hasn't even been to college yet. All we know is that some poor kid is slaving away as a janitor while in high school and the pro-slavery people think it's cute.
 
I always like it when a public school student makes it, particularly when they have had a challenging life

So do a lot of people, and Harvard knows this, which is why they seek out a handful of charity applicants now and then and sprinkle them in. It's a good PR move to try to contrast its long history of giving preference the children of the elite.

Socialist policies save another child!!

Haha, you credit socialism for this? That's rich. No pun intended.
 
I always like it when a public school student makes it, particularly when they have had a challenging life

Socialist policies save another child!!

And liberals will use this story to tell us we should show more respect for the homeless.
 
It doesn't work for everyone. Some who work hard and have luck can make it through. Everyone who works hard cannot make it through. And as the system stands fewer and fewer folk can make it through. As such stories like the one you posted shall become increasingly infrequent.

Wholeheartedly disagree. While not everyone will go to create the next FB, I-phone or whatever, hard work will certainly get you of an impoverished state if you want it. If it is getting harder, its not the fault of the system but the youth entering it.
 
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If it is getting harder, its not the fault of the system but the youth entering it.

Wait a minute...if it's getting harder (presumably you mean, harder to get hard work to pay off), then how can that be the fault of the people entering the system? I could see how it could be the fault of all the people who are in the system, but that seems like it's just the same as saying that it's the fault of the system.
 
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So do a lot of people, and Harvard knows this, which is why they seek out a handful of charity applicants now and then and sprinkle them in. It's a good PR move to try to contrast its long history of giving preference the children of the elite.



Haha, you credit socialism for this? That's rich. No pun intended.

Of course it was socialist policies that saved her. Read the article. It mentions them explicitely

Dawn Loggins spent the summer before her senior year of high school at the prestigious North Carolina Governors School

She got a job at her high school
 
A modern day Samuel Smiles paraded about by a libertarian as proof of the greatness of the system that leaves everyone else behind.

If you are left behind, it is your own fault. Because YOU can always figure out how to fix YOUR situation. Or you can sit on your ass and make excuses about why you can't. Well, you CAN. You just WONT.
 
If you are left behind, it is your own fault. Because YOU can always figure out how to fix YOUR situation. Or you can sit on your ass and make excuses about why you can't. Well, you CAN. You just WONT.

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If you are left behind, it is your own fault. Because YOU can always figure out how to fix YOUR situation. Or you can sit on your ass and make excuses about why you can't. Well, you CAN. You just WONT.

Now tell us all about how the govt is ruining our nation :lamo:
 
I wonder why we don't hear about stories like this everyday, if the U.S. is such a land of opportunity that all one needs to do is apply themselves and reap great rewards.

The truth is that reality is more complicated, and the circumstances that this girl faced are not identical to the circumstances that others face. And as someone else pointed out, she's in the door at Harvard...will the author of the piece to a followup if she flunks out? Will the author track her and see if she is successful, or just does OK, or fails?

I believe that people ought to do the best they can for themselves, and that no one ought to wait on a handout from anyone, including the government. However, I believe that the 99% is not a mass of smug lazy ne'er-do-wells waiting for Mr. Moneybags to give them a free ride. I believe that most people are honest and sincere and wish to make a life for themselves as best they can. I truly have no envy of anything any other man has, because I didn't have to make the compromises that he did to get what he has. But I also believe that the wealthy, those who benefitted most from the system we have in place to gain wealth, ought to pay the lions share of the cost of maintaining that system, and ought not begrudge helping those who cannot help themselves.
 
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