Two bus rides and two train rides sat ahead of Badara Traore as his alarm buzzed at 5:30 a.m. each morning during high school.
Traore would leave his Hyde Park neighborhood in Boston between 6 and 6:30 a.m. in order to make it to Matignon High School by 8 a.m. each day.
"It was a great experience," Traore recalled. "Some days I didn't feel like going to school, so some days I just had to wake up and go. I had to go do what I had to do, taking two trains and two buses every morning going across the city.