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Hello, my name is Xiangjun Tracy Pen. I graduated 2003. Um, I actually took a, a executive MBA program, uh, from 2001 and, uh, to 2003. And I loved the experience. Um, at that time I was working full time and, uh, I had two young

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kids. My youngest son was actually three months old when I started the program. It was actually, uh, uh, we, we, we, we came to campus every other weekend. So it's a Friday and a Saturday two full days from eight o'clock to six o'clock. And it's a

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time of refreshment for me. And, um, I got to, you know, learn a lot and at the same time, um, uh, uh, have interaction with my, uh, classmates and we got fed really well from, uh, um, breakfast, lunch to dinner. And, uh, on Friday night we

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usually have a patio night and we, uh, have beers and drinks. Um, so it was really good and, uh, I remember I was a very, um, usually when we start the program on Friday morning, we are, we were all exhausted and tired from a whole week

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of work. However, somehow we, we, we got, we pull through, uh, this are 22 years and, uh, uh, by, by the end of, uh, uh, the weekend, the, the Saturday night, we are actually fine. And, uh, so I, I think it's, uh, I really appreciate the

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experience. I appreciate the, all the professors and all the classmates and just the overall experience and the Rice University. Uh, if I have any advice for the next generation, I would say, enjoy, enjoy, enjoy the learning, enjoy the uh enjoy your classmates, enjoy the beautiful campus.

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It's really great. Thank you.