Still without a real job two years after graduating and barely making ends meet, he is beginning to lose hope.

Rather, he interacted with a "tough crowd" often getting into many physical confrontations all the way through high school-he barely graduated and had numerous disciplinary issues.

Despite barely graduating from being a toddler, Wentian exhibited great inner strength.

After barely graduating, he bounced around, finally attending community college in California.

I barely got in and I barely graduated.

He barely graduated from Copiague High - "Basically I cheated my way through."

"At Brown, I spent so much time flying airplanes and fooling around that I barely graduated," he wrote in the book's introduction.

Leave aside the many large state schools where the basketball players are effectively semi-pros, rarely and barely graduating.

At that time fully half of our large high schools in the Bronx were barely graduating 30 percent of their students.

But acting remained his passion and he concentrated on his theater work rather than his fashion subjects, barely graduating.