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Michelle aspires to achieve an ivy league education but is devastated by her school college counsellor not being convinced she is “Princeton material”. Here we start to understand her ambitious drive and sheer determination. Using a great expression, “Failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result” she describes how she defied the seed of doubt that saw her not only gaining a place at Princeton but going on from there to Harvard Law School. However, Michelle admits never totally being able to shake the fear of “Am I good enough?”. This is something many of us struggle with daily, being a human trait. It’s what you do about that question that matters. Being at college was a serious adjustment to a white male-dominated world, likening it to being “poppy seeds in a bowl full of rice”. It’s easy to see why she became an even harder working, serious student, compelled to show what a working-class black female from Chicago was capable of.