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Bunker Hill, with many other student mothers, provided Woo with something of a social support system, she said...
Balancing school work, her daughter’s needs, and three jobs—one at the Vitamin Shoppe, one tutoring at Bunker Hill, and one in the Office of Institutional Advancement at Bunker Hill—was difficult. But Woo came up with “creative coping methods” to spend time with her daughter while she wrote papers and did reading, creating assignments for Amarrah so they could work together...
...definitely a struggle to try to find a balance between being a good mother and being able to accomplish what I needed to at school,” Woo said, her youthful appearance belying the difficulties of her life. She speaks energetically, flashing a dimpled smile...
...years later, Woo graduated with a 4.0 GPA and a degree in sociology. But her educational aspirations stretched further—she applied to Harvard, Boston College, Boston University, Simmons College, and the University of Massachusetts...
...There was definitely a consensus that it was absolutely ridiculous that I was applying to Harvard—community college kids don’t go to Harvard,” Woo said...