company. Blah blah blah. The competition was at Yale, so I drove the 1.5-2 hours in rush hour to get there. The problem was, that morning my mom had fed me a ton of weird grain-y bran pancakes. This was before I figured out that this stuff gave me diarrhea. 9/n
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He wrote a long thoughtful e-mail and he said "hey, I really respect what you accomplished. Unlike all the other teams, you had real sales and showed you could actually make things and then sell it. You also said on one of your slides that you were looking for a mentor." 20/n
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Bob became my mentor. He taught me so much. And I owe him hugely for that. What's the moral of the story? Even if you shit your pants in front of a ton of people, you have to keep going. Opportunities come at the strangest times. There is no failing, only giving up. 21/21
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I had an 8th grade teacher who one day told the class that the world wasn't fair. He said it was rigged against you and for somebody else. He had real-life case studies. But he also said it didn't matter, you still had to do your best. Best teacher ever.
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Great message.
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