Jerry, get ready. They’re waiting for you to speak. As I walked through the cafeteria’s double doors to make my final annual presentation for our school’s debate club, I could not have been simultaneously more and less prepared. As a sophomore, I had given the speech to less than fifty people in one small, cramped room. This year, a cool two hundred packed the cafeteria, eager to hear my address. The pitch itself was as lucid as...

“From Toronto, Canada, Jerry Peng!” Receiving a medal on stage in front of thousands of equally talented, screaming high school students showed me that meaningful achievements demand continuous, never periodic, effort. That moment, of placing top 10 in an international business competition, was neither lucky nor painless. As a shy freshman, I was rejected at the second interview stage for DECA, a competitive business club, because I lacked the presentation skills to succeed. As a sophomore, having developed more confidence and...

I have three passions that have lasted me my lifetime thus far: sports, statistics, and business. When those are blended, the two fields that interest me are the statistics of sports and the business of sports. I ended up passionate about statistics in sports when I first watched professional athletics. I loved my team, but was always perplexed by the inconsistency of athletic success. The great mystery in sports has always been finding a way to predict winners. Athletics have...

I have three passions that have lasted me my lifetime thus far: sports, statistics, and business. When those are blended, the two fields that interest me are the statistics of sports and the business of sports. I ended up passionate about statistics in sports when I first watched professional athletics. I loved my team, but was always perplexed by the inconsistency of athletic success. The great mystery in sports has always been finding a way to predict winners. Athletics have always been tainted by engrained stereotypes and biases, such as nepotism, that never accurately represent success on the field. However,...

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