Lisa Jakub

Lisa Jakub

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Lisa Jakub
Nov 18, 2022
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Hi Friends,

I was a “non-traditional” student at the University of Virginia when I started classes in 2006. That means I was a decade older than my classmates. So I was a student who worried about exams — but I was also married, and worried about paying the mortgage, getting homeowners insurance, and tipping the trash collectors in December.

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