Word: sawing
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...other professors saw exciting opportunities in combining departments...
...school that you wanted to go to, or when you get there you're worrying every semester about whether you can register, which were ... you know, many kids that I knew felt that way. And when I worked in the University of Chicago, I saw kids like me who were using their loan money to help their parents pay the electric bill, and therefore they'd run out of money for books and couldn't feed themselves over the course of the semester. I saw those kids, right, but they didn't have a parent that said, "Do not look...
...sort of think of all that balance, and we were lucky because we could have ... anything could have happened, you know, and I realize ... looking back on the ... where my grandparents lived, they lived in this housing development called Parkway Gardens. I was actually born there. But I saw it as a wonderful, small apartment building. That's how I remember it. But now when I pass it, it's - I was like, God, I never saw that apartment in the way that I'm seeing it now ... you know, without ... but that's where my grandparents lived...
...been for a long time. So that ... I just think that people have the opportunity to see all of who Michelle Obama is over a longer period of time. And hopefully, they like what they see. And I think they actually - to the extent that they saw all of me - liked what they saw then. It's just that ... because if that weren't the case, I don't think Barack would be President, you know...
...bright kids growing up, she says, "and you slowly see people slipping through the cracks, you know that there but for the grace of God." She had friends who could have thrived in college, but their parents didn't believe in going into debt to pay for it. "I saw kids like me who were using their loan money to help their parents pay the electric bill, and therefore they'd run out of money for books and couldn't feed themselves over the course of the semester ... So I just keep thinking about those kids who are missing opportunities...