I still remember the first day of orientation when one of the professors at Pepperdine said in two years, you won't recognize he person that is sitting in that chair. I guess, maybe that's most important lesson I've learned from all of this. It changes you in ways that you don't really expect or are not prepared for.
In the time I've been here I"ve made friends and lost friends. I've burned bridges and I've built them. I've learned some of life's hardest lessons, and that sometimes you don't get a second chance no matter how much you try to make up for your mistakes.
But, perhaps the greatest lesson in all of this was self-acceptance. I had to accept that I wasn't perfect, face my own demons, learn from them and move on.
For the second time I'm in my life, I'm graduating into a recession. The first go round I had the dot com bubble burst in front of my face after graduating from Berkelely. This time around, as I sat deep in South America at Brazilian Oktoberfest during my semester abroad, the bubble burst everywhere around me and I heard the wors "global economic meltdown" as I continued to guzzle beer with my newfound Danish friend.
And of course there's that whole academic part of this whole experience they call b-school. Quite appropriately named given that most people end up with that grade. Somehow Academics have always played a minimal role in educational expereinces for me, despite being raised by a college professor. Most of my lessons have always come outside the classroom, and business school hasn't really been that diferent. Although I can put the letters MBA, and give you a list of courses in marketing, strategy, and a bunch other things I could have learned for $1.50 in late fees at the public library, what I've learned is to look at the world differently.
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