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Clarissa Mays

February 14, 2017

Journal

From homeless to Ivy League

The author Vivian Kuo discusses the struggles and hardships high school senior Dawn

Loggins faces in the article From Scrubbing Floors to Ivy League. Dawn Loggins a high

school senior at Burns High School went through many great obstacles and never gave up in life.

Loggins was a janitor and lived with school faculty when her parents left her high and dry while

she was away at a summer learning program with the school. She pushed herself forward and

was so dedicated she was accepted to Harvard on a full scholarship. Loggins is a prime example

that you can achieve anything if you put your mind to it!

Suzy Lee Weiss, the author of To (all) the Colleges That Rejected Me, describes her

frustrations through sarcasm on how difficult it is to get into an Ivy League school. Weiss is a

spunky girl who thinks that it is funny to joke about her misfortune. She describes how if she

would have had a soccer mom who pushed her to try harder or maybe if she had played many

musical instruments she would have went further. In the end Weiss is a bitter teenager who

wrote this to show her frustrations in a more entertaining way.

I really feel as if I do not connect to either of these two articles. If I had to choose the one

I connect with more so, I would say the second article. If this same situation happened to me

with the college that I wanted to go to I would be devastated. I would probably be pretty irritated

too.
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The From Scrubbing Floors To Ivy League article reminds me of all the people that I

went to highschool with that did not have a good family life outside of school. It shows that not

everyone is as fortunate as we are at times.

I chose this photo because it shows how some people have to live. It is terrible to see how

people have to live. I choose this photo because Dawn would have ended up like this if she didn't

have the school take her in.

Works Cited
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Kuo, Vivian. From Scrubbing Floors to Ivy League: Homeless Student to Go to Dream

College. CNN, 8 June 2012.

Weiss, Suzy Lee. "To (All) the Colleges That Rejected Me." The Wall Street Journal. Dow

Jones & Company, 29 Mar. 2013. Web. 15 Feb. 2017.