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My dad set a box in front of me and asked me to count the sides. As a young child, I counted six sides, not forgetting about the top and bottom. He smiled and told me to count again. I counted six once more. He saw my confusion and told me to look inside the box. There were six more sides to count... This curiosity has led me to the core belief that difficult things are possible to achieve. When I was a sophomore in college, I wanted to spend my summer across the country interning in Washington DC. I didn't have any professional contacts there (and this was back in the day when LinkedIn didn't exist). I nervously called by phone and asked various organizations if I could mail them my resume for consideration. Two months later I was working for Intellectual Capital, a non-partisan think tank with the mission of equally disseminating political information to foster collaboration. I followed with two additional internships through my college experience, also while working and paying for..