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In Their Own Words

November 13, 2008 Two Senior Students at the annual Fall Scholarship Celebration spoke from the heart about what their scholarships at Penn has meant to them.

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Deborah Garber

Call it a network, call it a support system, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. I owe my successes at Penn to my incredible Penn family. I left my “real” family back in Torrington, Wyoming, to be able to fulfill my dreams as a businesswoman and world traveler. My mom, a single parent who was raising my brother, sister, and I, agreed with me that this was an amazing opportunity for me and encouraged me to take it.

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Bo Peng

I think I'll tell them about my freshmen year, a time when I was a dreamer, and I wanted to learn everything, and be a renaissance man, very much in the image of our own Ben Franklin. About the days when my primary concern was remembering the names of the hundreds of people I met, so I could then friend them all on Facebook.

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November 13, 2008 Two Senior Students at the annual Fall Scholarship Celebration spoke from the heart about what their scholarships at Penn has meant to them.
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	Deborah Garber Call it a network, call it a support system, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. I owe my successes at Penn to my incredible Penn family. I left my “real” family back in Torrington, Wyoming, to be able to fulfill my dreams as a businesswoman and world traveler. My mom, a single parent who was raising my brother, sister, and I, agreed with me that this was an amazing opportunity for me and encouraged me to take it. read Deborah's full speech >

	Bo Peng I think I'll tell them about my freshmen year, a time when I was a dreamer, and I wanted to learn everything, and be a renaissance man, very much in the image of our own Ben Franklin. About the days when my primary concern was remembering the names of the hundreds of people I met, so I could then friend them all on Facebook. read Bo Peng's full speech >
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