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Jennings said he remembers that the dean made a joke: “Look to your left. Now look to your right,” the dean told the new freshmen. “One of the three of you won’t make it to graduation.?...
Jennings’ anxieties were compounded by the fact that he was openly gay at Harvard, during a time when the University lent virtually no support to LGBT students.
Jennings said that his difficult childhood and a challenging experience at Harvard shaped the way he thinks about education—and how he believes Harvard can make progress in the future.
Despite such hardships, Jennings said that his mother convinced him that he would go to college.
“I think part of what saved me was that I was so out of place I didn’t know how out of place I was,” Jennings said.