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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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Shibani Joshi

I grew up as the eldest child of immigrant parents who chose to live out the American dream in the oddest of places, Oklahoma City. A great portion of my life was spent trying to live up to the expectations of my parents, molding my environment to make it more... View Details

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Shana Hoffman

The very thing that attracted Shana Hoffman to engineering (she completed a BSE in electrical systems engineering at the University of Pennsylvania) frustrated her when she and her family were doing their best to help her father weather a storm of health issues. “I... View Details

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Sarina Hickey

I will never forget the stench. Or her haunting blue eyes, wavering between consciousness and a death she might have welcomed. She couldn't have been older than 12, this half-naked, starved girl I now cradled in my arms, hurrying around dark corners of a brothel in... View Details

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Susan Hamilton

Telling your coworkers that you need to miss the client meeting to handle your daughter’s case of lice is risky. "This is unfair to those of us who don’t have kids!" "Can she really handle this promotion?" Or imagine if you let your nanny handle the... View Details

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Sonali Duggal

On the last day of class, a professor left our section with the following words: "Unpack your bags." My grandmother moved from a village to New Delhi, sixty miles away. My mother traded a small circle in India for a small circle in the U.S. I, on the other... View Details

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Shelby Colby

On July 20th, 2016, I learn I have a tumor. This only happens to others, but now it’s happening to me. My husband, Douglas, envelops me. I sink into a ball, and my tears soak through his shirt. Douglas and I were packing our apartment and starting to plan our... View Details

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Sparsh Bhargava

In his junior year as a chemical-engineering major at Cornell, Sparsh Bhargava got an internship with Dow Corning in Carrollton, Kentucky, population 3,846. And, by virtue of his presence, "increased the Asian population by twenty-five percent." The... View Details

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