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Greatness is the full realization of human potential. To achieve it without experiencing the beauty that life has to offer is to not achieve it at all.

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I returned to MIT from Palo Alto adrift. I spent the first two weeks of the semester dropping in and out of random lectures in departments I had never heard of. One of them, tucked away in a decaying, windowless classroom, was 22.01: Introduction to Nuclear Engineering.

I switched majors after two lectures.

Here, in the fission of Uranium-235, I have finally found a good quest.

I was once told that greatness requires holding your hand in the fire long after the heat becomes too much for others to bear.

I want to win a lightweight rowing national championship. I want to fall in love. I want to put a terawatt of nuclear capacity on Earth. I want to be great. I am 20 years old. I will hold my hand in the fire as long as it takes.