After English and Spanish, business is my third language. At first, I did not recognize it as such; I considered finance, accounting, management, and marketing to be mere skill sets.

On the eve of my departure for Harvard, my long-standing neighbor and friend, Jack, told me what he had heard and has since never forgotten from his first day of class: Harvard will lead you into a forest, from which you will spend the next four years finding your way out.

Misconceptions abound about the undergraduate program at Wharton. Rumor has it that its students are all finance geeks and disconnected from the rest of the Penn community.

With the motto Pro humanitate, Wake Forest provided a context for continuing my commitment to service while taking on new academic challenges.

Attending an all-woman’s institution has instilled in me the self-confidence, the self-assuredness, and the core belief that, as a woman, I can excel in any field that I choose to pursue.

I like to joke that I chose to study history in college as a career move. After all, history is a growing field.

I first considered applying to Berry College while dangling from a fifty-foot Georgia pine tree, encouraging a high school classmate, literally, to make a leap of faith.