Word: successful
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...says Mao, smiling. “At least that’s what I tell myself.”Fiction writers are especially affected by the pressure on Harvard students to use their degrees for a high-powered career. The publishing industry is infamously difficult to break into, and success is far from guaranteed. “A writer is a hard thing to become,” Fine says. “I’m not sure—maybe [I’ll write] at some point, but not immediately after college. Maybe...
...application and see. Congratulations to Andrew too, none too shabby that he…”She nods. “He seems excited, that’s all that matters.”This week we’d all heard back from our schools. The wild success of nearly everyone I knew was a resounding disappointment to all of us, one that we were just starting to feel this weekend. We’d all gotten in exactly where we wanted, and felt thus somehow cheated of the hard-earned belief that these places were...
...absolutely love track and love the team,” Merritt said. “And being on the team and having such wonderful people around me has motivated me to keep going.”Merritt’s optimistic attitude has been a key factor in her success on the track.“Favia’s persistence comes from her ability to keep a positive attitude through hardships,” Merritt’s teammate Sean Gil said. “She can tolerate a huge amount of discomfort, and never lets it limit...
...presidential campaign were all of our millions of grassroots supporters who made this victory happen. We had sound electoral strategy in both the primary, which was to try to win Iowa and win delegates from as many places as possible and in the general election. But your success starts and ends with the candidate, and we had a unique candidate who met the times...
...people at the grassroots level that can help win an election and potentially change the country. He showed that you could win being who you are, and that the American people are willing to be leveled with and spoken to honestly… Not every campaign will have the success we did in igniting the grassroots and having them play such an important role in the campaign and the ultimate victory. But campaigns should try, because having people involved in their government is very good for this country...