Successes of top students celebrated - The Prospector

  • By zz-omni-cms
  • May 5, 2011


While many graduate students feel nostalgic about college and how it just flew by, the 2010-2011 UTEP top ten seniors expressed their excitement for what waits for them after graduation.

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"I actually decided to stay in El Paso," Diaz said. "I'm going to Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, but for me the main reason why I decided to stay was because I love the El Paso community and there are milestones in your life where you have to decide on those things and that was my main motivation."...

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