When The Tough Get Going, By Joseph P. Kennedy

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I am recognize as a multifaceted person, having a lot of experience in different jobs, sports and clubs, but I still lack the experience of a college education. That experience comes with a great number of obstacles and rough times but also with limitless opportunities to grow intellectually and emotionally with the education and interactions with the people in the university. I know is a difficult path with complicated challenges, but as the saying goes:” When the going gets tough, the tough get going” by Joseph P. Kennedy, and I am up for that challenge. With the help and guidance of the faculty and education of University of Notre Dame I will achieve and accomplish any goal I set in my

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