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...Brien: Working as a journalist, I was always tempted to lie. I felt I could do dialogue better than the person I was interviewing. I felt I could lie better than Nixon and be more concise than some random person I was covering. It was liberating to my imagination to break out of that and to be able to make things up that, although they were invented, felt truer than the truth. These are two different things [fiction and journalism] and one makes me feel and the other leaves me kind of cold...
...Before ASI, there was no formal organization where we could bring together Afghan students,” Jalalzada says. “This was the first time we all came together...
...narratives spoke of frustration, accomplishment, hope, and disillusionment. It all resonated with Michael, but he could not contribute...
...student recounted his efforts to contribute to American society—“I pledged the Pledge of Allegiance, I did it all”—Michael could also relate, but he still did not speak up. And when seven other students in the crowd raised their hands as fellow undocumented students, Michael did not raise...
Michael realized a school like Harvard was his only chance. Though his parents were excited about his acceptance into some prestigious public universities, Michael could not bring himself to share their joy. “I think they were seeing [my acceptance] as a milestone, and I saw it as a missed opportunity,” he says. He had seen the struggles of older undocumented youth as they took time off from school to work to pay for college or went into deep debt, and knew he did not want...