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Reflecting on my first quarter of school, after two gap years.

i. Every reinvention story is a confession, and mine is this: before I started at Stanford this September, when I had often thought I would never return, I was very dismissive of what college had to offer. I had two gap years in my pockets: living in Rome with other founders; crying after firing someone for the first time; traveling the world, hiking in Uzbekistan, meeting my cofounder's family in Abu Dhabi; sneaking into Stanford dining halls. While I never admitted it, my mindset reeked of how proudly I had weaponized myself. My plan was to do one quarter at Stanford, learn the math that was

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