where did barack obama went to school?
Occidental College Harvard Law School Noelani Elementary School Punahou School State Elementary School Menteng 01 St. Francis of Assisi Catholic School Columbia University
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 After high school , Obama moved to Los Angeles in 1979 to attend Occidental College . In February 1981 , Obama made his first public speech , calling for Occidental to participate in the disinvestment from South Africa in response to that nation 's policy of apartheid . In mid @-@ 1981 , Obama traveled to Indonesia to visit his mother and half @-@ sister Maya , and visited the families of college friends in Pakistan and India for three weeks . Later in 1981 , he transferred as a junior to Columbia College , Columbia University , in New York City , where he majored in political science with a specialty in international relations and lived off @-@ campus on West 109th Street . He graduated with a BA degree in 1983 and worked for a year at the Business International Corporation , then at the New York Public Interest Research Group . In 1985 , Obama was among the leaders of May Day efforts to bring attention to the New York City Subway system , which was in a bad condition at the time . Obama traveled to several subway stations to get people to sign letters addressed to local officials and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority , and was photographed at the City College subway station holding a sign protesting against the system 's condition . 

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 Obama entered Harvard Law School in the fall of 1988 , living in nearby Somerville , Massachusetts . He was selected as an editor of the Harvard Law Review at the end of his first year , president of the journal in his second year , and research assistant to the constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe while at Harvard for two years . During his summers , he returned to Chicago , where he worked as an associate at the law firms of Sidley Austin in 1989 and Hopkins & Sutter in 1990 . After graduating with a JD degree magna cum laude from Harvard in 1991 , he returned to Chicago . Obama 's election as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review gained national media attention and led to a publishing contract and advance for a book about race relations , which evolved into a personal memoir . The manuscript was published in mid @-@ 1995 as Dreams from My Father . 

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 Michelle met Barack Obama when they were among the few African Americans at their law firm , Sidley Austin ( she has sometimes said only two , although others have pointed out there were others in different departments ) , and she was assigned to mentor him while he was a summer associate . Their relationship started with a business lunch and then a community organization meeting where he first impressed her . Before meeting Obama , Michelle had previously told her mother that she would focus solely on her career . The couple 's first date was to the Spike Lee movie Do the Right Thing . Barack Obama opined that he and Michelle had an " opposites attract " scenario in their interest for each other initially since Michelle had stability through her two @-@ parent home while he was " adventurous " . They married in October 1992 , and have two daughters , Malia Ann ( born 1998 ) and Natasha ( known as Sasha , born 2001 ) . After his election to the U.S. Senate , the Obama family continued to live on Chicago 's South Side , choosing to remain there rather than moving to Washington , D.C. Throughout her husband 's 2008 campaign for US President , she made a " commitment to be away overnight only once a week – to campaign only two days a week and be home by the end of the second day " for their two daughters . 

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 McCain 's family tree includes Scots @-@ Irish and English ancestors . His father and his paternal grandfather , John S. McCain Sr. , both became four @-@ star United States Navy admirals . The McCain family followed his father to various naval postings in the United States and the Pacific . Altogether , he attended about 20 schools . In 1951 , the family settled in Northern Virginia , and McCain attended Episcopal High School , a private preparatory boarding school in Alexandria . He excelled at wrestling and graduated in 1954 . 

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 Besides his native English , Obama speaks some basic Indonesian , having learned the language during his four childhood years in Jakarta . He plays basketball , a sport he participated in as a member of his high school 's varsity team ; he is left @-@ handed . 
