Salutatorian Miguel Coste reflects on experience as first-gen student

Isa Sheikh | Friday, May 19, 2023

Miguel Coste understands that it’s strange advice for a Notre Dame salutatorian to tell students to “focus a lot more on the people around you,” rather than work and academics. Having spent the past four years learning on and off campus — from James Joyce’s “Ulysses” to readings on the importance of sleep for memory