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Wilson Kyi

Filial piety. My deep reverence for my parents is captured in this Confucian philosophy. But I can no longer live for them. I used to stake out with my dad in our auto body shop, fending off armed burglars from stealing car radios and alloy wheels. I experienced... View Details

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Victoria Song

I will master my own destiny. As a young child, I took note of the sharp contrast between the standards that existed for boys and girls in my stoic, conservative family. My brother was encouraged to speak his mind, to defend himself, to take on the world. No one ever... View Details

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Veronica Pinchin

I learned about hard work from my father, who learned about it from his. For 70 years, Vic Pinchin worked the land on his farm in Streetsville, Ontario. Over the years, seasons of lifting bushels of apples onto his rusty trailer bent his body almost in two. During my... View Details

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Vivek Garg

Right out of college, Vivek Garg was directly exposed to difficult health-care policy issues. As part of Congress's Medicare Payment Advisory Council (MPAC), Vivek reviewed the coordination of policies and payments. "Many doctors are reluctant to acknowledge the... View Details

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Umaimah Mendhro

My home-village, Akri, the place my father was born... is where I slept under mosquito net-covered handwoven beds and rode on ox-carts to nearby barren fields. Most in my village in Sindh, Pakistan are not literate. None know a place called Harvard. My life in exile in... View Details

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Taylor Wiegele

As a boy, Taylor Wiegele could often be found in the kitchen "making mixtures of random ingredients." Fortunately, for him and for his family, Taylor's enthusiasm for "potions" evolved into a real chemistry expertise. After studying chemical... View Details

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Tiberius Vadan

"Dream big!" was the advice that Kirsten Moss, HBS admissions director, gave us at the welcome address in January 2001. "How big is big?" I asked myself, feeling excited yet a bit overwhelmed by the high expectations. Still uncertain of the... View Details

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Tian Tian

I opened the Black-Scholes calculator in my HBS tool kit, trying to figure out the price for my options in life. Although the MBA Program has simplified the puzzle to just four-variable input, I was stumbling on volatility for hours. Certainty makes me feel assured,... View Details

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Tiffany Niver

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Tom Humphrey

When I was five, everyone called me "Zac." He was the protagonist of a book mum would read to me at night, a boy who battled imaginary dragons to save his town. Inspired, I would run around in a cape terrorising the neighbourhood. Once, I lugged our cat... View Details

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Tara Hagan

Married by 20 Long hair Nice job, maybe a receptionist In high school, I wrote myself a letter not to be opened for five years. It ended with the above list of dreams for future Tara. When I rediscovered the letter, the person who wrote it felt so far away, and yet I... View Details

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Tom Doyle

Financial theory suggests that debt creates value. So, I want to spend my life accumulating more debt... ...debt to friends and classmates for extending their talent to transform a slum into a thriving community ...debt to academic colleagues for shaping my ideas so... View Details

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Tanveer Abbas

As a 10 year old, all I wanted to do in life was grow up to be an adult - that way, at dinner parties, my mother couldn't keep sending me away to play with the younger kids. As a high school student, all I wanted to do in life was get lucky with the ladies. As a... View Details

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Sarah Zaidi

My meeting with the Board is in twenty minutes, and I squint at the spreadsheet. A hand places a cup of steaming chai and a saucer with three tea biscuits beside my laptop. Three biscuits? Protocol permits two at most, and Hafiz is a stickler for the rules. He has to... View Details

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Scott St. Germain

We all yearn for people to emulate in life. I simply aspire to serve as an example for others. If my life and the way in which I lead it could someday provide inspiration and direction for a handful of others, I would be truly honored and would consider my life... View Details

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Sarah Shanfield

I have a photograph of my mom: sugar-pink dress, retro sunglasses, sunburnt nose, open-mouthed smile as her arms reach out to welcome me home after a morning Amtrak trip from hot New York. She is magnetic. In childhood, playdates clamor for a seat at the kitchen... View Details

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Shreya Saraf

I will sing out loud. I stood with my fourth-grade class and sang the national anthem with my head held high. Our teacher paced up and down, frowning, and said, “Someone sounds like a frog.” Everyone stopped mid-sentence. Some looked scared, others giggled. I looked... View Details

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Sarah Murphy

My younger sister flaps her hands with wild excitement when she's happy. Her favorite days usually involve a great movie and a hand-tossed pizza. She's autistic, yet has taught me the most powerful lessons about the simple pleasures of life and the sheer bliss of... View Details

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Soline Miniere

I raise my voice, disagreeing strongly with my classmates. I realize that I have not been listened to. It infuriates me. I am not heard: my French accent, my harsh tone, my messy choice of words discredit me. My heart racing faster, tensions in my body, the... View Details

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Sam Li

“I hate technology!” said Michael, 67, a former high-school English teacher. This was a Saturday afternoon in a university library. After spending hours on his own, Michael turned to me - a stranger - to help him set up online rent payments for his apartment. Shocked,... View Details

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