Word: wagner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...intensive scholarship application process of senior year has helped Wagner to look at her own life more closely. “The most interesting thing about applying to the Marshall and Rhodes is that it forces you to sit down and draw out what your beliefs and value systems are,” she says. “Here, it is really easy to rush and do a ton of things in the day and have a great time.” In sitting down and reflecting on her life, this joint economics and social anthropology concentrator realized she wanted...
Until Harvard-Yale weekend, Wagner had been looking towards a job at Blackstone Private Equity Group. The shock of winning the Rhodes reminded Wagner of “this scene in Zoolander, where the main character thinks he wins the Male Model of the Year Award...I was literally 50 percent sure they called my name...
...Wagner may be the first to tell you that winning the Rhodes was like being admitted to Harvard—at least as far as the family teasing goes. When she told one of her younger brothers the news, he joked, “Could you stop doing that? Why do you always have to win everything...
...person more inclined to give advice than to talk about herself, Wagner has learned to become more comfortable as a public speaker due to the attention she has garnered since news of the Rhodes winners broke. “The more interviews, the easier it gets to talk about myself,” she concedes. The Associated Press wanted to know what Wagner thought of the war in Iraq. “I have a little soap box now, and I can say things to effect change,” Wagner says...
...early presenters, telling humiliating stories about themselves is the preferred coping technique. “I think the only thing that’s interesting about me is that I’m really boring,” says newly-named Rhodes Scholar Rachael A. Wagner, adding that she comes in last in every ski race, “except when someone falls. Then I’m ahead by a few seconds...