Last Day

I just finished my last class at HBS - I can't believe 2 years have passed just like that. I remember all of the jitters everyone had at the beginning - trying to figure out how to fit in, who your friends were, whether your last comment was stupid... pretty much like high school just with a competitive edge to it.

My last class today was education reform and our teacher shared why she was so passionate about education. As someone whose grandparents only made it to the 8th grade and whose parents only graduated from high school, she, as a graduate and teacher of HBS, believed in the American dream. But, because she sees that you can look at a zip code today and say that the American dream doesn't apply for some students, she cares passionately about education. She ended with the fact that we didn't have to have her same passion, but ought to have something and to do something about it. I never would have guessed that those would be the last words I heard in a classroom at HBS, but I'm glad that they were.