A Friend’s Steady Love

In middle school, Megan would draw cartoons of the boys I had crushes on and pass them to me in the hallway. In college, she answered my middle-of-the-night phone calls from 400 miles away. Now, she makes me laugh while we FaceTime on opposite coasts. I think about the men I’ve begged to stay and their excuses of needing time and space. I convince myself that maybe I’m not destined to have love that endures. But Megan has had over a decade to leave and enough distance to disappear. I have never thought of her as anything but permanent. — Victoria Yang

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Reflections on Learning

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way. —  Doris Lessing

It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought—that is to be educated. ― Edith Hamilton

“The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.” ― Elizabeth Hardwick

I most carefully confined myself to facts and arranged those facts on as thin a line of connecting opinion as possible. — Mary Kingsley

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Team Inspiration

“I send “mindset vitamins’ to my students every day using a group chat program, GroupMe. The mindset vitamins take the form of quotes, introspective questions, affirmations, suggested actions, or a lateral thinking exercise or riddle.” — Heidi Neck, Professor of entrepreneurship, Babson College

I come from a place of authenticity and reality. I don’t think you can lead unless you are believed, and you can’t be believed unless you always have the truth behind everything you are coming from or moving toward.” — Jeff Peterson, Cofounder and CEO, Geneva Supply

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If you had two months to travel, where would you go?

I’d buy a plane ticket to Nairobi and explore nearby countries like Ethiopia. Then I’d head to West Africa – maybe Senegal or Ghana. If only I had four months, and not just two. J.F.

I’d go to Argentario Coast in Tuscany to practice Italian – and stay at the Hotel II Pellicano– A.K.

I’d never been to the other side of the world, so I would want to see some of Japan and Singapore. Then I would head to Australia and New Zealand, and maybe even visit French Polynesia if I had time. R.T.

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Purpose

How Does one find purpose? It’s an idea we explore throughout it…certainly, fashion serves a purpose -or many a source of optimism. But purpose itself is an elastic word. It can connote drive intention, ambition. It can involve goals and dreams we watch for ourselves. It can be borne of experience – of things we try do, survive, or endure. It can be a product of courage or fear. Sometimes the sense of purpose we embrace immediate: to fix something, to help someone, to go or leave somewhere. Others, it’ more profound: to transform systems, to move hearts difference between a job and a cause, an activity and a mission. It can ignite or overwhelm. But it can also lead to those rare, fleeting moments when everything seems to crystallize and we appear to fully understand who we are, why we’re here and what we need to do. The irony is that those moments of apparent clarity can sometimes be the hardest when we’re confronted with the most difficult decisions and choices we’ll ever face. But they can also appear as bright, shinning beacons that show us the way ahead.

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