When I was a student, I was forced to watch a film about ancient nutrition customs.

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When I was a student, Paul Samuelson, Nobel Prize-winning economist, and Kissinger were professors.

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Once, when I was a student and had decided to major in business, I had an argument with a friend.

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"When I was a student at UEA, back in the mid-sixties, I was taught by Angus Wilson and Malcolm Bradbury, and this helped to change the direction of my life, setting me on the path towards becoming a writer, " she said.

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When I was a PhD student at Yale, I studied with one of the fathers of situational leadership, Victor Vroom.

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When I was a medical student, my friends and I wore white coats so stuffed with reference books we could barely move.

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When I was a graduate student at Columbia, my mentor Carol Dweck and another student, Claudia Mueller, conducted a study looking at the effects of different kinds of praise on fifth-graders.

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When I profiled Joseph last September, he was a recovering math doctoral student who had hooked up with some floor traders to form a trading firm.

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When I witnessed the job-search drama as a student at Yale Law School, just about the most desirable placement was a spot at Cravath.

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Now, if you promise not to tell anybody, I will let you in on a little secret: I was not always the very best student that I could be when I was in high school, and certainly not when I was in middle school.

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