What Harvard (almost) stole from me - Julia Alvarenga
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I arrived at Harvard not knowing what consulting was. This is not a humble brag disguised as naivety. I genuinely did not know. The word existed somewhere in my vocabulary the way “actuary” did: a job some people had, probably involving spreadsheets, certainly not something I needed to think about. Words for other people’s lives. I thought college was for reading books you’d never otherwise read and arguing about them with people who had highlighter ink on their fingers. I thought it was for wandering into a lecture on the history of salt because the room looked cozy. I thought you…
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