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CiCi Barrett

Thank you, cancer. You’ve brought love and happiness into my life. I didn’t always feel grateful. I was only 6 when my mom was first diagnosed. Back then, I was too young to understand, but when her cancer returned 7 years later, my toxic relationship with the disease... View Details

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Benjamin Wells

By his junior year of college, Ben Wells knew he was destined to teach. Immediately after graduation, he put his ambitions to the test at Roxbury Preparatory Charter School, "a public school run like a private school," Ben explains. "It's brings a... View Details

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Bianca Tabourn

I want to sometimes fall short of people's Super Woman expectations of me. It will remind everyone I am only human. Convince myself to embrace the nervousness I feel when I have to deliver a presentation. It is this nervous feeling that reminds me I am still alive.... View Details

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Brendan Sullivan

I am a five-year-old boy in Japan, and I stand out in a crowd. Strangers on the street approach me to pat my head. I am most self-conscious about this phenomenon when my sisters and I deliver baked goods to a nursing home for the needy. Shrinkingly, I walk into each... View Details

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Benjamin Story

In Los Angeles, Mickey Mouse casts a long shadow. While majoring in theater at UCLA, Ben Story got a touch of "Disney magic" when a vice president of the firm helmed "one of the best classes I took:" a course in theme entertainment. The course led... View Details

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Brendan Mosher

As part of a family running a vegetable farm in the Hudson River Valley, Brendan Mosher had dreams of going to college, playing football, and eventually running his own business. Then 9/11 struck, and Brendan felt called to serve his country, making a change in plans... View Details

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Brian Elliot

I remember sitting against a tree at summer camp listening intently to a counselor who, with her guitar, taught me a song that I still sing to myself every day. It put a three-line ancient rabbinical teaching to a simple tune: "If I am not for myself, who will be... View Details

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Edrienne Brandon

I want to max out on every moment of every day. Work hard, play hard, and sleep less. I attribute where I am today to the intense love and support I received from my family, my incredible educational experiences, and role models that illustrated to me that more, of... View Details

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Amy Yamner

In 1999, Lourdes sashayed into my eighth grade classroom. She was, in a word, saucy. A self-identified chismosa, she passed notes and talked incessantly, even during my lessons. It was obvious she did not care about U.S. history. At the end of the year, however, she... View Details

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Alex Slusky

As a young undergraduate, Alex Slusky did things a promising professional was not supposed to do. When he was an economics student at Harvard, an ad in The Crimson caught his eye: Microsoft was looking for summer interns – from the Business School. But Alex applied... View Details

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Alex Rogers

All my life I have waited for my life to start. I have no more schools to get into, no more analyst programs to do. As of right now, it all counts. I've always had goals that were within my grasp to achieve – yes, from time to time I've failed, but I never felt like I... View Details

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Astghik Poladyan

I believe harmony improves lives. Classical piano performance was my life's first passion. Growing up in Armenia, I spent countless hours practicing masterpieces by Bach, Mozart, Chopin Pursuing a music career was a privilege I committed to with vigor and love. Even... View Details

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Tony Perez

As a candidate in the joint MD/MBA program, Tony Perez has a very specific focus: healthcare. "I'm interested in practicing medicine and in administration — running a large medical center," Tony says. "HBS helps me integrate general management with... View Details

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Anonymous

I may have a superhuman expectation but it's okay to dream... i want to challenge myself with adventures - build an organization for disadvantaged youth in india or africa, climb mount kilimanjaro or everest, cycle through egypt for charity, travel to new exotic places... View Details

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Andrea Nadosy

As an undergraduate at Harvard, Andrea Nadosy found a retreat in “by far the most attractive studyspace on campus,” Spangler Center at HBS. There, she discovered an unexpected inspiration. “There was always a hum of activity,” Andrea says, “people talking about their... View Details

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Aalek Mehta

I found purpose in a dusty back alley in Mumbai, in the innocent voice of an eight-year-old boy zipping around a dilapidated orphanage without a care in the world. Harish's only possessions were his smile and a positive outlook I envied. I couldn't help but ask,... View Details

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Ari Medoff

Ari Medoff's business career began in films, while he was an undergraduate at Duke. "I was CFlix.com's first employee," he says. Founded by a Duke student several years ahead of Ari, CFlix was a video media enterprise that served three-dozen schools before... View Details

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Amy MacBeath

"Who is your ideal seatmate?" my mock interviewer asked me when I was applying to Harvard Business School. Even after clarifying that a seatmate is who you sit next to during first-year classes, I still did not know how to respond. In fact, I thought that it... View Details

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Akash Gupta

My sisters and I knew our mom hadn’t been the best about keeping up with her rent, but we were still surprised when a police officer showed up and said we had to move. “Mom’s being evicted,” I told my dad over the phone. “Can you come pick us up?” In eighth grade, I... View Details

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Andrew Huynh

“What pisses you off?” My seatmate asked this simple question shortly after we met, and it has helped shape my search for purpose. I came to Harvard Business School with little clarity on long-term goals, seeing it as “tomorrow’s problem” and focusing more on enjoying... View Details

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