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...came back to America and unveiled the revised plan to my parents: I would work in restaurants for any restaurateur that would hire me so I could learn the industry from the ground up. They were slightly perplexed, but I seemed passionate, so they tried their best to hide it (“How about restaurant consulting?” they asked. No, no). I began pursuing the dream by stalking every friend of a cousin of a friend I could get my hands on. They, too, were often perplexed—“You seem to be right...
...spent four years at Harvard trying to reconcile all my different selves and trying to realize that these could co-exist,” she adds.Coming to Harvard hasn’t been the only challenge that Yu has faced in her pursuit of music. Having started to learn the piano at age four and the cello at age nine, Yu traveled from Taiwan to the United States at 14 to study at the Cleveland Institute of Music under the tutelage of celebrated cello pedagogue Dr. Richard Aaron.“It meant leaving my family and traveling...
...going to be working next summer.” Fast forward eight months and 20 Italian A quizzes later. I know enough of the language to complete my biweekly “graphic novel” assignments that concern a rabbit named Bunny who goes to Italy to learn how to cook and to write about it (as rigorous as it is original), and I’m poised to return to Italy in August as an apprentice chef to a hotel in Umbria.But do I need to jump all the way across the Atlantic to get this authentic experience...
...Japanese book To Make the World's Best Race Car. In 2001, Hayashi decided to spice up the school's drab curricula with a little real-world engineering project: a competitive endurance racer, designed and built by his students. "Studying a race car is a great way to learn a variety of advanced technologies," says Hayashi. "And, of course, it's appealing to young students...
...class with well-financed factory teams from Audi of Germany and France's Peugeot. The immediate goal is to complete the race, but Hayashi is already aiming at a podium finish at Le Mans within three years. At the same time, he hopes his students will learn more than engineering. "To win, the team is the most important," Hayashi says. "However advanced your machine may be, it's the people who bring out the best. I hope they will cherish each moment...