Gac Filipaj

An immigrant from the former Yugoslavia who has worked as a janitor for Columbia University for two decades graduated Sunday with a bachelor's degree in classics. Here's a touching photo and video from yesterday.

Filipaj said he wished he had told his father (who died three weeks ago) that he had been studying "because he thought that I'm not that smart." Uh, is it getting dusty in here?

“I’d rather clean bathrooms 2 or 3 more years and get the master’s than get a lot of more money and get better job and stuff like that.”