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Loving a school 2 decades down the road

My Ninong (godfather) Sebastian loves his school. Over 20 years after graduating from DePaul, his passion for it is unflagging. He’ll talk about the difference it’s making – how they’ve helped a lot of first-generation college students launch careers, founded overseas entrepreneurship tracks to give bright, hard-working students overseas get a first-rate American MBA without having to leave their family halfway around the world without a breadwinner… Ninong’s commitment to that school has led to a non-insignificant number of students enrolling there – and doing very, very well – directly because of him.

I want to care that much about the schools I go to. I want someone to say the same things about me 20 years from now, about how much I love Olin and IMSA. I want them to be places such that I will be that passionate about them still, decades down the road.

And since I care about them now, I’m going to work to make that happen.

That is all.