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Things I learned from Ellen, my HBS tour guide!

Harvard Business School’s campus is located in Boston, Massachusetts, and is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious business schools in the world. The campus spans over 40 acres and includes a mix of modern and historic buildings, all designed to foster...

Studying Business Honors Programs

In June 2021, I was named as a recipient of a McKinsey Global Achievement Award. This award was, to me, not a reward for work I had already done but an affirmation of work that I lacked the confidence to begin: studying business honors programs around the United...

Walking Through the Campus

I decided on a wintry and sedentary Thursday afternoon that I would stroll Penn State’s campus. Far too often, I figured, the campus served me as a means; that is, it was a thing that I passed through, indifferently, hastily, with little regard for all the dramas of...

Reflections on Our Second Jeffersonian Dinner

This evening, the Presidential Leadership Academy held a Jeffersonian Dinner at the Graduate Hotel at 5pm. Our dinner was about the specter of the economic recession – what would be different about this one? What kind of things would the recession affect? How...

The Magnum Opus of My College Career

About six months ago, I initiated the writing of my undergraduate thesis. This thesis, in fact, was the reason why I joined the Honors College in the first place, just two years ago. And if you are thinking, “Well, that’s a vapid reason for doing...

What I Learned from Reading Dead Psychologists

I remember my sophomore year of university as being a significant period of personal growth for me; at that time, I was on inexorable streak of reading non-fiction psychology books (no, not the ones that clog the ‘best-seller’ sections of Barnes & Noble...

Articulating My Thought Processes

Over the course of my 3 years at Penn State, I have weed grown immensely in my ability to think — not just about ideas, readings, and currency swaps, but also for my own clarity and decision making (thanks as well to the PLA, of course!!). Recently, my life has proven...

Yoga in a Business Class??

After what felt like an interminably long day, I lifted my backpack (full of the day’s gadgets, half-consumed waters, and a bulging coil of tangled charging cables) to my shoulders in expectation that I would find another place on campus to carry on with my studies....