"Everybody knows I'm quasi-sophisticated," she jokes as she tries on the earrings she bought during her shopping trip.
It's an established fact that Leila dresses much more stylishly than her roommates. For her birthday last week, her roommates and the boys from 32 bought her sweat pants and socks as a joke.
"They think I need to tone down the fancy clothes," she says.
She's the most confident of the group, perhaps because she's seen something of the world. Leila graduated from high school a semester early and worked the second half of her senior year in a school for the blind in Ghana.
Hung on the wall in her room is a zebra-pattern death mask that she brought back with her from the country. For her birthday, Lee gave her a harvest mask from Ghana.
"I'd venture to say this was made in the same village," she says.
Leila marvels at having met students at Harvard who can relate to her experiences.
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