Thomas AquinasBetter to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
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After I received my Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Princeton University, I did a summer internship working for a research company. During this time, I was asked to write a report on a project that a client had been working on. Although the client had been working on this project for more than a year, they did not have a draft of the report. The client had received it from another company and did not know what to do with it.
The client asked me to write a draft of the report based on the information that had been provided from the other company. When I received the draft from the client, I noticed that they did not need my suggestions or comments, but rather that they wanted me to “illuminate” them with my comments and suggestions.
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