But what is your reason behind it?
Now granted these things don’t necessarily help me answer the most common questions I’m asked: What designer are you wearing?
What’s your fitness regime? Any makeup tips?
But I have never since been embarrassed to myself as what I might previously have thought was a stupid question.
My Harvard degree and other awards are emblems of the experiences which led me to them.
The wood paneled lecture halls, the colorful fall leaves, the hot vanilla Toscaninis, reading great novels in overstuffed library chairs, running through dining halls screaming: Ooh!
Ah! City steps! City steps! City steps! City steps!
It’s easy now to romanticize my time here.
But I had some very difficult times here too. Not good.”
If only I could finish my work, even if it took eating a jumbo pack of sour Patch Kids to get me through a single 10-page paper.