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Noah Brodsky

Make people smile. And laugh and play, and have wonderful vacations they never forget. I am going to build resorts that bring people together. Places that strengthen the love in families and the bonds of friendship. For as long as I can remember I have wanted to run... View Details

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Marilyn Wang

“If you were a character in Gilmore Girls, you’d be Lane.” It wasn’t until years later when I finally watched the show that I realized who Lane was: the Asian-American best friend, loyal beyond compare, but always the supporting character. In the countless films and... View Details

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Maxeme Tuchman

By her junior year in high school, Max Tuchman was a hair's breadth away from dropping out. At issue were neither her grades nor conditions at home, but her disgust with the "poor quality of the Miami-Dade public schools," says Max. Just when she and her... View Details

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Mora Segal

"When I grow up, I am going to be a judge, a senator... or maybe even president! Oh no you're not, little girl..." When I was seven years old my picture appeared in an advertisement in Newsweek for the National Organization for Women (where my mother worked;... View Details

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Matias Ruiz

Growing up in Argentina with loving parents and finding the love of my life were the strongest things that shaped the person I am today. Early on when I started this fantastic experience I promised myself that I would gather some of the lessons learned here at Harvard,... View Details

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Marie-Anne Popp

I am an adventurer. From the Atacama desert in Chile to the ancient cities of Central Asia, I want to travel, explore and discover. Other cultures and civilizations have so much to teach me about myself and universal human values such as passion, courage and love. Even... View Details

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Matthew Naunheim

My parents gave me scars. The pale pink one on my left knee was from Dad, a surgeon, who meticulously sutured a puncture wound made when I fell on a rusty nail. The jagged arc on my forearm was from Mom, an emergency physician, who stitched my skin no less precisely... View Details

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M. Monique McCloud-Manley

Leave a lasting impression on someone that has doubted the capabilities of people that look like me. Make it so that he will never doubt another black woman again without first thinking about the bigotry he had towards me... and how I proved him wrong Prioritize my... View Details

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Mamongae Mahlare

Allocate time and energy to initiatives for the primary benefit of my beloved South Africa Many lives were sacrificed for my freedom And with political freedom comes great responsibility To achieve economic emancipation So our children can eat, receive quality... View Details

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May Lam

I was breathless as a sense of loss swept through me. The Tibetan monks had just washed away a sand mandala, an intricate art piece that took them weeks to build using millions of grains of colored sand. This process of creation and destruction was an exercise in... View Details

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Mantazh Khanna

I will not let go of my yellow work boots and hard hat. Manager Tan gave them to me at a power plant in Singapore as he proudly showed me around his magnificently built facility. Crisscrossing shiny steel pipes. Towering black furnaces. All supporting the needs of a... View Details

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Michael Holt

"Once you jump, you're already dead. Now change the outcome," said my jumpmaster when I completed my first skydiving solo jump. That moment, I discovered the enlightened thrill of putting your life in your own hands, leaving no one else responsible for your... View Details

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Marie-Laure Goepfer

"I want everything, right now, and I want it all. I do not want to be modest and just be happy with a little piece if I behave well. I want everything to be as beautiful as when I was a child - or die." – Antigone, Jean Anouilh When I was 20, I played the... View Details

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Mae Abdelrahman

The first doll my mother bought for my sister was black – so she would love herself and her skin. The second doll she bought was white – so she would love others and their skin. From the time we were born, my mother instilled the notion that all skin is beautiful.... View Details

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Leena Kevan Nash

I plan to live my life returning the extra 5¢ the cashier gives me; and then I plan to live discovering exactly how that became my instinct, so that one day I can teach my own children to do the same. I will live my life holding the door for the person behind me,... View Details

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Lindsay McGregor

I lost the use of my hands in college. I could not write, type, or turn a doorknob. I was in excruciating pain all the time. For two years, doctors could not figure out what was wrong. One told me I was making it up. Several told me that I would never heal. I was... View Details

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Lisa Marrone

“You’ll do the right thing.” My father pauses after saying these words and looks at me, pleadingly. There are moments in life when things become just a little bit clearer. I blink and stare. What is the right thing? My parents were never married; My dad was in the... View Details

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Lee Koffler

Today, roughly thirteen million refugees struggle to fulfill their basic needs each day. In one version of my life, I will help bring shelter and water to refugees in Kosovo and Tanzania. Each morning I will wake up and go to work knowing that I am helping families who... View Details

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Lindsay Jurist-Rosner

My recurring dream is far from a nightmare, thank god. The dream actually varies quite dramatically but the common element is flying. Well not flying so much as floating. As a kid, I used to dream that I was floating home from the bus stop, now I dream about floating... View Details

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Luke Hodges

Ah the peace and control of compartmentalization! Set boundaries, build some walls. Choose on which side to be. You please, wait here. I hope you like the room. I try to keep it clean. Cup of tea? Stove is here, mugs over there. I’ll be back soon. What? No walls? All... View Details

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