From country schools to Harvard University

Vanessa Jarrett

By Vanessa Jarrett
Community contribution / September 26, 2014

Last month Christine Hills was waking up on the Harvard University campus in Boston in the United States. Back in Australia, on the weekends, Christine wakes up to her farm in Moura and during the week she wakes up to her house in Rockhampton.

So how does a farm girl like Christine get to Harvard?

“I am very driven in what I do ...

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