A roommate in college was from a small rural village in Vietnam and a first gen college student. It took his entire extended family to pay the cost of tuition (international student rates). At the age of 18 he was putting in 60 -70 hours a week to his studies, as the responsibility he felt to his family to earn that sacrifice was overwhelming and less than an a perfect score visibly upset him. Not knowing any better I once said 'but you got a 3.9...', his reply was 'My father skips meals for me!'.