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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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Rob Self

A cursory glance at Rob Self’s resumé seems to suggest a contradiction: with an advanced degree in mechanical engineering and a lengthy job history in manufacturing and automotive, his founding of a startup to serve Midwestern farmers seems to have arrived from a... View Details

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Raamin Mostaghimi

On July 4th, 1987, my mother cowered under a bed in a rented room outside Minneapolis. She didn't know what the word "fireworks" meant, and there weren't many Farsi speakers around, so she assumed the noises she heard were explosions. This wasn't totally... View Details

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Rebecca Garrison Greenawalt

Who am I? A freckle-faced girl from small-town New Hampshire. A daughter, sister, wife and friend. A musician, a student, a classmate, a colleague, a confidant. None of this entitles me to anything that I am about to say. But that, in truth, doesn't bother me. For what... View Details

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Rahima Dosani

I will love, unconditionally and with abandon. For my mother. Having already given birth to eleven children, my grandmother tried to abort her. It failed. My mother was brought into this world unwanted, neglected, and abused. No one knew her birth date. Her father... View Details

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Robyn Bolton

I want to be an Ambassador of Ridiculousness. I've live in fear, running from who I am, hiding and dismissing myself, attempting to be who I think I should be. Terrified of the moment when I will be forced to admit that I'm not in control. But to be ridiculous is to be... View Details

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Ravi Belani

Ravi Belani grew up in Cupertino, California where he witnessed the town’s transformation from “what used to be orchards into what is now Silicon Valley.” His birthplace proved prophetic. After completing Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in engineering at Stanford, Ravi... View Details

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Rebecca Arnold

Karaoke. I bring a lot to the microphone: enthusiasm, excellent song selection, volume - but not vocal talent, per se. Sure, I can carry a tune, but I'm not auditioning for Broadway anytime soon (although in the throes of my karaoke passion, belting "Midnight... View Details

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Rick Ambrust

An F! I didn't want to believe it. Just as I was trying to forget a disastrous semester, the Registrar wanted to give me one last reminder. But it happened. It was mine to keep. An F. It was both humorous and humiliating to do the same 10 minute walk to Lecture Room 3... View Details

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Peter Tynan

I have already been blessed to live a wild and precious life. From Australia to America, and the continents in between, I have marveled at beautiful sunsets sinking behind mountains and oceans, with people whose languages I often don't speak. Whether in Cambridge or... View Details

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PJ Kim

I am the 2005 Pad Thai Eating Champion of Boston. I ate 4 large platters in 30 minutes. My picture hung outside of 9 Tastes Thai Restaurant in Harvard Square for an entire year. I put it on my resume. It got me to the final rounds in all my sales and trading... View Details

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Philia Hiotis

Money is the most important thing in life. Well, not actually, but if you're poor it can make a difference. I want to contribute to improving people's lives through a career in economic development, with a focus on providing microfinance services to low-income people... View Details

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Pothik Chatterjee

I will open doors and step out of safe closets... Growing up in an Indian family and moving from Dubai to Paris in second grade was a disorienting and confusing experience. I was different from the other boys. I didn’t enjoy sports or karate. The team selection process... View Details

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Patricia Barron

Bad knees and growing boredom teaching dance led to a career shift. A friend suggested HBS – I was "at least as smart as the bottom half of his class." Hence my adventure from dancer to Board Vice Chair of a major corporation. I relish risk and change –... View Details

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Onaizah Panhwar

“But you need a shelter a man to provide security to your family” – a well-intentioned relative advised, trying to convince me to marry when I was seventeen. “I will be my own shelter I may not know how but I have faith in myself” – I protested while fighting the... View Details

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Olivia Melendez

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? I had always planned to get an MBA to complement my engineering education and experience. After working for 3+ years in roles that were increasingly self-directed and broad in scope, I felt that gaining more formal... View Details

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Nelson Yuan

While studying industrial engineering at Columbia University, Nelson Yuan “felt the gravitational pull of Wall Street.” For him, engineering wasn’t an end in itself, “but a framework for looking at problems. I like to apply an engineering perspective to operations... View Details

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