She had a large circle of friends and excelled in school with little effort.
She endured repeated operations, learned to walk with leg braces and crutches and excelled in school.
It isn't as if these young people didn't work hard: these hardships affect those who spent long hours studying, excelled in school and did everything "right".
She worked hard, excelled in school and earned a graduate degree in journalism from Columbia University when she was 20. "For so long, I thought my father wasn't there because of me," she said.
During an interview, Ms. Martin said that her children — ages 10 to 16 when she was last arrested — had all once excelled in school, but that they had lost their ability to focus during her absences after the shoplifting arrests.
She worked hard and excelled in school in her early years.
Under the guidance and encouragement of her father she worked hard and excelled in school, especially in English class.
An ex of mine so excelled in school that, at the tail end of the Soviet Union, she found herself uprooted from her comfy life in Moscow and shipped off to an elite Soviet math and science academy in the then Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic's capital of Bishkek.
Suresh had always excelled in school.
Despite the torments of her childhood, Baliga excelled in school.
I excelled in school, attending Amherst College and Harvard Law School.
