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Rebecca Black, best known for her pop hit \u201cFriday,\u201d has graduated with Johns Hopkins University’s Class of 2013 with a B.S. degree in neuroscience, with honors.<\/p>\n
Black, whose meteoric rise to fame in 2011 and supposed lack of talent had experts convinced she would just wind up a coke addict by the age of 18, has proved everybody wrong. <\/p>\n
After fading from cultural relevance two years ago, and realizing that her five minutes of fame were up, Black \u2013 at the tender age of 13 \u2013 dedicated herself to academics. With amazing alacrity, she completed high school and went on to Johns Hopkins,where she has completed all course requirements after only 18 months of study, with a 3.95 GPA. <\/p>\n
Though extremely busy preparing her graduation speech while simultaneously coordinating the efforts of a charity she founded last year that focuses on providing food and water to villages in Africa, Black took a moment to tell how she was able to find such success.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy song, ‘Friday,’ was a changing point in my life,\u201d began the former Youtube sensation. \u201cIt was after that I realized that I had to change my life,\u201d continued the young scholar, sitting at her computer and concurrently analyzing the results of a recent experiment she conducted on the cognitive processes of orangutans. <\/p>\n
\u201cI was reading Sallust\u2019s wonderful work, Bellum Catalinae<\/em>, and came across a phrase that could be roughly translated as, \u2018For the glory of wealth and beauty is fleeting and perishable; that of the mind is illustrious and immortal.\u2019 It was with that in mind that I chose to dedicate myself to the pursuit of academic excellence.\u201d<\/p>\n After graduation, Black plans to attend Yale University’s M.D.-Ph.D. program. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Sam Spiegel May 28, 2013 Rebecca Black, best known for her pop hit \u201cFriday,\u201d has graduated with Johns Hopkins University’s Class of 2013 with a B.S. degree in neuroscience, with honors. Black, whose meteoric rise to fame in 2011 and supposed lack of talent had experts convinced she would just wind up a coke addict by the age of 18, has proved everybody wrong. After fading from cultural relevance two years ago, and realizing that her five minutes of fame were up, Black \u2013 at the tender age of 13 \u2013 dedicated herself to academics. With amazing alacrity, she completed high school and went on to Johns Hopkins,where she has completed all course requirements after only 18 months of study, with a 3.95 GPA. Though extremely busy preparing her graduation speech while simultaneously coordinating the efforts of a charity she founded last year that focuses on providing food and water to villages in Africa, Black took a moment to tell how she was able to find such success. \u201cMy song, ‘Friday,’ was a changing point in my life,\u201d began the former Youtube sensation. \u201cIt was after that I realized that I had to change my life,\u201d continued the young scholar, sitting at her computer and concurrently analyzing the results of a recent experiment she conducted on the cognitive processes of orangutans. \u201cI was reading Sallust\u2019s wonderful work, Bellum Catalinae, and came across a phrase that could be roughly translated as, \u2018For the glory of wealth and beauty is fleeting and perishable; that of the mind is illustrious and immortal.\u2019 It was with that in mind that I chose to dedicate myself to the pursuit of academic excellence.\u201d After graduation, Black plans to attend Yale University’s M.D.-Ph.D. program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-komono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3320,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions\/3320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}