An inspirational story of achievement

Gac Filipaj has been a janitor at my Alma Mater, Columbia University, for 20 years. During all this time, he has been taking courses, using his employee course credits to first learn English and then to take Latin and Greek, which of course was my major at Columbia 40 years ago. Well, next week he will receive his bachelor's degree in Latin and Greek. With honours. He is now going to apply to the graduate school to study for a PhD in classics.

For being a student by day and a janitor by night, and outperforming a lot of privileged young undergraduates, I nominate Gac as my

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