He always stressed that I go to school and just learn, get my education.
"Every day when I go to school, to college, I see dead bodies on the street and ... destroyed houses and burnt cars and things like that, " Adel says.
So when I was in college, that's when I had to decide whether I wanted to go on to graduate school, and I decided I would be a lawyer.
And believe me, the gamers who (try to) kill me online all day are a lot closer to me than the kids I go to high school with.
I'm having -- I see my daughters before they go to school and I see them at night for dinner, even if I have to go back down to the office.
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Personally while in school I have really worked hard to refute those claims, because I take this very personally, and I have chosen to go to business school so that I can create change and be an ethical and responsible contributor to business.
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"When I go talk to high school students and ask them if they experience pressure, the majority who raised their hands were the girls, " he said.
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And I go to the TMCC school right now, just trying to get an education after we lost our -- my wife and I lost our jobs here.
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Depressed and lost, my friends encouraged me to go back to school (I had 20 credit hours under my belt that I had paid for myself but could not figure out the major that fit me).
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He saw how stressed I was over my job, and knew how badly I wanted to go back to school and work in the non-profit world.
But neither my husband nor I wants Emma to go to that school because the students there do not look lively or energetic.
She let me go to residential high school when I was 14 even though I know she wanted me to stay home.
He has another three years to go before graduating from high school, but I always like to remind him that his family and friends think the world of him -- and for the most part, just about everyone else on this planet doesn't give a damn about him.
Oh no, these could not be the children who wanted to go to school, I thought.
It's saying: right, kids do actually do have to go to school, I will be there at 7.30 until you get your kids up on you own and get them to school.
But since my mom is functionally illiterate and we grew up on the west side of Detroit, I'm forced to go to this school that has been a poor-performing school for 30 years.
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As soon as they finish high school or as soon as I finish grammar school, I have to work through high school and sometimes not even go to college.
Although I felt I had found "my place, " I still had to go back to my own school.
My mom's side of the family had moved to Washington during my senior year of college and I wanted--I wasn't ready to go to graduate school yet.
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As my dad protectively drove us to and from school, the only places we could go to, I noticed the row of soldiers on the streets.
Right now, your job -- as I tell Malia and Sasha -- is go to school.
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In my head I thought people like me just did not go to school.
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But I want to go back before that, because I taught her in her first year in law school.
When I decided at the age of 14 that I wanted to leave home to go to the NC School of Science and Mathematics, it was dad who packed up the car and made sure that I got there.
You know, I had him already--I had picked out the school he was going to go to when he was five already, which is underwater now and it's no longer there, you know.
It was difficult to think that a day after taking pictures of middle class workers in the Indonesian capital, just three hours away from luxurious buildings, I found a group of students risking their lives to go to school.
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