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Joys and Pains of First-generation College Students

December 2, 2017 by Carolina Pinto

Photos by Kayla Lee “College had always been a thing that I was working toward and college had always been my ultimate goal. It was my resource toward economic mobility and to be someone my parents were not able to be,” said senior Jazmin Guardado, an International Studies major at Pepperdine. She is a first-generation college student. Guardado is from Los Angeles, but … [Read more...] about Joys and Pains of First-generation College Students

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