TUESDAY, 16 JUNE 2026, 17:44
They all begin college with hope, and leave without the credential they believed would shape the rest of their lives due to financial instability, family, illness
Story and photographs by Rachel Bujalski
Everyone knows the feeling of leaving something unfinished.
A half-written novel. A business idea scribbled into a notebook. A hobby abandoned after the excitement fades. In my own life as a...
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