"It's a remarkable achievement considering that she was one of 20,000 applicants, not to mention that the majority of filming was during her final exams.
A single mother, dog owner and PhD candidate who had been living in Harlem, Smith found out in late December, during her final exams, that a grant she had applied for at Howard University came through.
She panicked during one of her exams when she first opened the paper.
A law student who sat her exams during the campaign, and denied being pushed into running for parliament by her famous family, becomes the youngest French MP in modern history.
One woman I talked to visited a new gynecologist, who, during her annual exam, began lecturing her about her weight.
The court documents said his DNA was recovered during her medical exam.
She had a breakdown during her first-year exams, but the university was less sympathetic than she'd hoped.
And a good model agency, if they really thought she had huge promise (again, unlikely, but you never know) would be shrewd enough not to pressure her during exams, try to fit in work in the holidays, and generally take a responsible role as regards her education and her future.
Student Darcy Newmark struggled to hear during her French listening exam because the residue of an end-of-school flour fight was lodged in her ear.
As Ms. Fey Judy Blume-ishly chronicles her journey from a 10-year-old who wants to shave her "shin fur" to a University of Virginia undergrad who climbs a mountain at night to impress a boy who likes another girl to a 23-year-old virgin who faints during her first gynecological exam, her portrayal of her earlier self as gawky is, to say the least, persuasive; it doesn't reek of false modesty.
