# Dawn Loggins

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dawn-loggins/624443>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 7, 2012, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dawn-loggins/624443 "2012-06-07T23:36:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dawn-loggins/624443/1 "2012-06-07T23:36:42Z")

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[Awesome story](http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/07/us/from-janitor-to-harvard/index.html?hpt=hp_c2)… (you made a need a tissue).

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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dawn-loggins/624443/2 "2012-06-08T00:41:37Z")

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Without irony, I can honestly say “cool story bro” to that.

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**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dawn-loggins/624443/3 "2012-06-08T00:47:45Z")

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Yup, loved it.

Not sure this should be in CS - maybe MPSIMS. And for those who don’t want to click an unidentified link, it’s a series of newspaper articles about a girl who grew up poor, came home at age 17 from a summer camp for gifted students to find her mom and stepdad had moved away with no forwarding info, and how she managed to not only finish high school but excel.

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**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dawn-loggins/624443/4 "2012-06-08T01:28:15Z")

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Beg pardon for the unidentified link. Dawn Loggins is a poor, abandoned and homeless 17 y/o who worked as the custodian at the high school she attended. She and her brother couldn’t even afford candles to study by.

Well… she was just accepted at Harvard, full scholarship beginning this Fall.

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dawn-loggins/624443/5 "2012-06-08T02:37:30Z")

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Moved Cafe Society --\> MPSIMS.

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**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dawn-loggins/624443/6 "2012-06-08T16:48:02Z")

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You weren’t kidding about that tissue! Oh my!

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**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dawn-loggins/624443/7 "2012-06-08T19:51:15Z")

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Good for her! It’s neat how she just applied there pie-in-the-sky, not expecting anything, and got in. 🙂