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steele
“I didn’t want to go to LSU until my senior year of high
school. I was dead-set on Georgia from sophomore to junior
year. I got in, but it was so expensive. I got a full ride here,
so I was like, “Boom, let’s go.” Just being here in a different
space than high school is cool, because I know that I’ve
made some life-long friends that I’ll have for life. I think that’s
so cool. My high school was very vanilla. It was mostly white
people. There were a few black kids, but here there’s people
of all races and backgrounds and everything. I had to get
used to not being around only one race every single day. It
was definitely a slight adjustment, for sure.”
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