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Michelle Obama Tells Students 'College Wasn't Meant to Do Alone'
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/Michelle-Obama-Tells-Students-College-Wasnt-M ^ | 6/21/2018 | Tramon Lucas

Posted on 06/26/2018 10:46:11 AM PDT by simpson96

Former first lady Michelle Obama told first-generation college freshmen to surround themselves with a community to help them survive college.

Mrs. Obama was the first in her family to attend college. She said: "Finding a cohort for yourself and starting to build your community is going to be important. College wasn't meant to do alone."

She spoke at the fifth annual Beating the Odds summit. Reach Higher, an education initiative launched by Mrs. Obama during her husband's presidency, partnered with Twitter and Handshake, a college-to-career network, for the daylong workshop. It included a celebrity panel with La La Anthony from the Starz show "Power" and Daveed Diggs from the blockbuster musical "Hamilton."

Mrs. Obama, 54, who attended Princeton University, remembered how odd she felt her first time on the campus. "It was like a whole new language," she said. "I had never sat in a lecture, I didn't know what a syllabus was."

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcchicago.com ...


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KEYWORDS: michelle; michellespeech
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To: buckalfa

I see your point.


21 posted on 06/26/2018 11:11:09 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: simpson96

“I didn’t know what a syllabus was”

Same thing it meant in high school. She obviously had been accepted into college based on her skin color as she was too ignorant otherwise.


22 posted on 06/26/2018 11:15:14 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: simpson96

‘College Wasn’t Meant to Do Alone’

Gee...no one told me... no one held MY hand.


23 posted on 06/26/2018 11:20:47 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Nearly all men can stand adversity...to test a man's character, give him power." A. Lincoln)
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To: simpson96

Ah, another example of a glittering jewel of colossal ignorance.

Thankfully, EVERY African-American I know is really smart and has earned degrees in disciplines whose entrance requirements would prevent Dorkbama the Muslim eunuch quota boy and his never had a real job wife from disgracing their classrooms.


24 posted on 06/26/2018 11:23:59 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: simpson96
"I had never sat in a lecture, I didn't know what a syllabus was."

What the hell did you do in High School, ya dumb broad?!?!?!

25 posted on 06/26/2018 11:24:53 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: simpson96
Hey Michelle hopefully most of the country is over you your dreams of world poverty are over go fishing go skiing smoke a joint you can prolly afford the good chit

We tried your version of the dream let me tell you it sucked not only for us but you and your husband turned the world into ninny suckers thank all that's good that is over so toddle off and find an anthill to crush or another man to dominate i hear jeb bush is free these days

Molly Hatchet - Dreams I'll never see

26 posted on 06/26/2018 11:27:39 AM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK ("Vi veri vniversum vivus vici" "By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe)
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To: simpson96
"Huh...you didn't earn that degree."


27 posted on 06/26/2018 11:28:55 AM PDT by moovova
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To: simpson96
It included a celebrity panel with La La Anthony from the Starz show "Power" and Daveed Diggs from the blockbuster musical "Hamilton."

So getting advice from a kook actor and a gay guy is the answer for these kids? No wonder they are so troubled.

28 posted on 06/26/2018 11:31:15 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: ColdOne

“...Hey mooch where is the old man???...”

Hiding from the prospect of an orange jump suit....we can only hope.


29 posted on 06/26/2018 11:32:31 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: laplata

,my democrats need a village to raise their kids, to go to college, and on and on


30 posted on 06/26/2018 11:32:42 AM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Build Kate's Wall)
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To: morphing libertarian

MANY


31 posted on 06/26/2018 11:32:59 AM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Build Kate's Wall)
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To: simpson96
"Syllabus"? I carried a Dictionary around with me during college.

Problem solved.

Moron


32 posted on 06/26/2018 11:37:08 AM PDT by 4Liberty (illegal immigration is a "process" crime too....)
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To: All

She got into Princeton, how?

So dumb she didnt even know what a syllabus was.


33 posted on 06/26/2018 11:37:31 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: simpson96

She can’t even use proper english.
“College wasn’t meant to do alone.”
Really. That’s not even close to coherent.
It’s a lie, what she said, akin to “It takes a village”, but it should be “College wasn’t meant TO BE DONE alone.”


34 posted on 06/26/2018 11:39:19 AM PDT by TheConservativeParty ( Trump is The Storm)
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To: Liz

We had them (syllabuses/syllabi) in high school - what the hell was she doing in high school that she didn’t know that word yet got into Princeton?


35 posted on 06/26/2018 11:40:47 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: simpson96

Mandatory military service would cure a lot of what ails this fragile generation of infantile pu**ys.


36 posted on 06/26/2018 11:42:26 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Migraine
Nobody ever saw him at Columbia. Inquiring minds want to know.

Yes, and apparently he was the President of the Harvard Review; but, never wrote an article for the publication --- which is unheard of.

37 posted on 06/26/2018 11:46:09 AM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: simpson96

Yup mooshell, it’s easier to cheat and steal in a group.


38 posted on 06/26/2018 11:48:17 AM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.)
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To: NorthMountain
"I had never sat in a lecture, I didn't know what a syllabus was." What the hell did you do in High School, ya dumb broad?!?!?!

My youngest daughter took AP English classes in HS. The HS was a Catholic HS. Anyway, she landed in a Junior level English class in her Freshman year and she was amazed at the students sitting in that class who didn't know basic stuff, that she had learned in Jr. High and HS. Public schools simply do not teach kids anything -- as far as I can tell.

39 posted on 06/26/2018 11:49:25 AM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: miss marmelstein
She sure didnt get in based on academics. Maybe its b/c she was so "stylish." (smirk)

The "stylish" Michelle.


40 posted on 06/26/2018 11:53:42 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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