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After hearing all Boe’s extraordinary stories, her present situation seems incongruously tame: she’s in the midst of her sophomore year at Smith College. Unlike those of us for whom college was the unquestionable post-high school destination, Boe has diverted from the established path a hundred times in life. Coming to Oxford to study Shakespeare, fiction writing and international law is another route she might never have expected to take...
After high school, one of her first jobs was in a mail-order company where women made $3 an hour for working the line. Boe decided to load mail trucks with the guys for a 50-cent raise in pay. At 21, she was driving a meat truck around the North Shore, braving slaughterhouses and blood-covered butchers to haul crates of beef. Not long after, she was driving 18-wheelers. All jobs that relatively few Smith students have on their college resumes...
...wasn’t long before Boe outgrew what the community college had to offer, and one of her professors encouraged her to apply to continuing education programs at local colleges like Smith and Mount Holyoke. Her initial reaction? Fright. “I’d rather take a trailer into Manhattan during rush hour,” she remembers thinking...
...years of age, she applied. Smith admitted her to its elite Ada Comstock Scholars Program, an academic program for women of what the school gently refers to as “nontraditional age.” A sociology major, Boe says she’s considering law school and working in immigration or labor law. (Harvard Law admissions officers, take note...
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