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I was the first person to go to university from my family.

For me specifically, it was important to graduate. In my family, I was one of the first graduates. My mom did not have a college degree. My dad did not have a college degree.

As far as I could tell, I was the first person anywhere in my family tree to go to university.

No one in my family graduated from college until my brother did, and then I did.

My older sister, Amy Jo, and I - we are the first generation of my family to stay on at school and do any exams at all.

My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.

I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.

Our family story here is one that we're proud of, and that is that, as the ninth of 10 kids in our family, I was the first who, right out of high school, was able to go to four-year college... it was a big moment in our family's life.

Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university?

I was the first in my family to graduate college.

I went to Cambridge University and was the first in my family to graduate.

My parents' greatest wish was that I graduated from college. Neither of my parents had a college education, and they really wanted me to have one.

I was the first person in my family to go to university so it was quite a big deal for us.

My father has his master's degree. My uncle does as well.

I willed myself through a junior college to a university and, ultimately, a Ph.D.

Education is an incredibly personal issue for me. If you're the first generation to go to college, sometimes you don't realize your potential until others point it out.

My brother's got two degrees. He got one for me.

No one in my family had ever even gone to college.

Being the first in my family to go to college, I believe, is my greatest accomplishment. It's not my accomplishment; it's my family's accomplishment.

I was the first in my family to go to college.

My elder brother is a lecturer in a college in Haryana, and my eldest sister was a teacher. I feel they are more educated than I am. I, too, used to dream of becoming a teacher.

I'm not Chinese, but both of my parents were born in Iran; my brother and I were the first ones born here. First in our family to go to college, that whole thing.

My mom had always been big on education. She was the first woman in our family to go to college, and she often reminded me that I needed to go to college if I wanted to really make it in life.

I am a first-generation college graduate, and I'm proud to say that most of my other siblings have college degrees as well. Our parents taught us to work hard and never forget our family roots, where we came from, and how much effort it took to get to where we are today.

My mother was very strong on me to go to college. No one had ever been to college, including my parents.