it took him almost s

the English language before he was admitted to result from产生于,源下

the School of General Studies. (2)His graduation campus/kempas n. ia

run into造遇

with honors resulted from his strong will to thumowep /tme下(示或首的)

overcome all the difficulties he ran into in the大学、mn

ro lowing dozen years of studies including preside /mn/ad omer lw

adings in ancient Latin and Greek.

4 On Sunday morning on Columbia's

Manhattan campus, Filipa) flashed a huge smile academics ssmmiks' n (p学木活

and a thumbs- up as he walked off the podium1 lee,nli: tled fled.走,选掉

after a handshake from Columbia President Lee

nomeland/ha,mlnd n.国:家

Bollinger, who presided over a ceremony in tubs/ basal n,(AmE)厅致杂

which General Studies students received their celpnonesulfun,n, if

graduation certificates

5 "This is a man with great pride, whether he

doing custodial work or academics, said Pete

Awn. dean of Columbia's School of Genera

Studies. " (3) He is very humble and grateful, but

he s one individual who makes his own future

ad for Filipai who fled

o the United States in 1992, leaving behind

is parents and siblings on a fam

Montenegro, then a Yugoslav republic. Filip

he was living in Montenegro and working on

his family farrn, he attended tl

Belgrade as a part-time student, but he was

unable to finish his degree due to the cruel civil

war and had to leave his homeland during the

last year of his studies

7 At first in New York. his uncle in the Bron

offered him shelter while he worked as a

restaurant busboy. "I asked people, which are

the best schools in New York?"he said. Since

Columbia topped his list, "I went there to see

if I could get a job. " Filipaj was accepted at

Columbia as a janitor.

8 Part of his $22-an-hour janitors pay still goes

back to his brother, sister-in-law and two kids

in Montenegro. Filipaj has no computer, but he

bought one for the family, whose income comes

mostly from selling milk. Filipaj also saves by not

paying for a cellphone; he can only be reached