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Camille Carey was told she shouldn’t go to college.
Not that she couldn’t, but she shouldn’t.
She was struggling to pass her high school exit exams because she couldn’t read them. She couldn’t write on them, either.
Despite her severe dyslexia and dysgraphia, Carey eventually did pass those tests. She decided to go to college anyway, and May 7, she graduated with a master’s degree in entomology and plant pathology from Oklahoma State University.
(Camillie Carey uses a portable photosynthesis meter to measure sorghum response to aphid feeding. (
Photo by Wyatt Hoback)
“They told me, ‘Well, it is better if you don t go to college,’” she said. “Well, here I am.”