At Yale, Robert struggled with fitting in from "summary" of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs
Robert’s time at Yale was marked by a constant sense of struggle. From the moment he stepped foot on campus, he felt like an outsider in a world that seemed so different from the one he had known growing up in Newark. The Ivy League atmosphere with its privileged students, prestigious professors, and sprawling campus was a far cry from the streets of his childhood where violence and poverty were everyday realities. Robert's efforts to fit in at Yale were met with mixed results. While he excelled academically, earning top grades in his classes and impressing his professors with his intelligence and insight, he found it hard to connect with his peers. The students at Yale came from backgrounds of wealth and privilege, attending elite prep schools and summering in the Hamptons, while Robe...
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