I sat patiently in the conference room, opposite one of the most distinguished professors of Texas. As he flipped through my resume mindlessly, my heart sank. He put the resume down, crossed his arms, leaned back in his chair, and stared back at me. With the left side of his mouth upturned in a sneer, he scoffed at what he saw as a lack of success. “Do you know how many of my students have been accepted into Harvard?”, he...