Iowa State student doesn't let car crash, COVID-19, friend's death stop him from graduating
AMES — Without pressure, there are no diamonds.Yusuf Shehata, a 2018 Cedar Falls high school graduate, wants people to remember that philosophical ...
AMES — Without pressure, there are no diamonds.Yusuf Shehata, a 2018 Cedar Falls high school graduate, wants people to remember that philosophical quote whenever they're faced with challenges.He graduated from Iowa State University last month, but it didn't come easily. It required persistence, grit and consistency.Shehata followed his brothers Muhammad and Ahmad to ISU and started out pursuing computer engineering in his first semester, but finished with a 1.81 grade-point average. Shehata later switched to a bioinformatics and computational biology major.