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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 2208146" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/02/michelle-obamas-high-achieving-sotu-guest-just-flunked-out-of-college/" target="_blank">Michelle Obama’s High-Achieving SOTU Guest Just Flunked Out Of College</a></p><p>Anthony Mendez was a freshman at the University of Hartford when he received an invitation from Obama to attend the State of the Union. Mendez was chosen for his inspiring personal story. Despite <a href="http://fox61.com/2015/01/19/university-of-hartford-freshman-is-guest-of-honor-at-state-of-the-union/" target="_blank">spending time in a homeless shelter</a> and having a friend of his murdered while in high school, Mendez was able to graduate high school and go on to college. Mendez met with Michelle Obama in the summer of 2014 and shared his story with her, which prompted her to <a href="http://www.collegeaccess.org/BlogItem?dg=a66e1400-0a3b-42b7-99cd-6b49807e3a93" target="_blank">invite him to the president’s speech</a> about six months later.</p><p>“Before even checking [my grades], I knew that I had failed all my classes,” Mendez says about his experience after his first term at Hartford. “With a GPA that didn’t even reach 1.0, I also knew that I wouldn’t be able to return next semester.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 2208146, member: 12952"] [URL="http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/02/michelle-obamas-high-achieving-sotu-guest-just-flunked-out-of-college/"]Michelle Obama’s High-Achieving SOTU Guest Just Flunked Out Of College[/URL] Anthony Mendez was a freshman at the University of Hartford when he received an invitation from Obama to attend the State of the Union. Mendez was chosen for his inspiring personal story. Despite [URL='http://fox61.com/2015/01/19/university-of-hartford-freshman-is-guest-of-honor-at-state-of-the-union/']spending time in a homeless shelter[/URL] and having a friend of his murdered while in high school, Mendez was able to graduate high school and go on to college. Mendez met with Michelle Obama in the summer of 2014 and shared his story with her, which prompted her to [URL='http://www.collegeaccess.org/BlogItem?dg=a66e1400-0a3b-42b7-99cd-6b49807e3a93']invite him to the president’s speech[/URL] about six months later. “Before even checking [my grades], I knew that I had failed all my classes,” Mendez says about his experience after his first term at Hartford. “With a GPA that didn’t even reach 1.0, I also knew that I wouldn’t be able to return next semester.” [/QUOTE]
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