Jamie Mustard

Yeah.

So one of the things that helped me at the London School of Economics is that I'm there.

That school represents more countries than the United Nations.

And then when you do your exams, someone outside of your department is grading your test.

They don't know who you are.

So they probably thought that my writing issue was because I was a kid from Beijing or Kuala Lumpur.

So there's lots of kids that probably are writing English in weird ways.

So I think that helped me.

We'll figure this out.

But I knew this stuff in that two years before I went, the application for this program at Georgetown and the London School of Economics, I thought for sure I was never going to get in, even though these people were rallying around me and encouraging me.

I'm spending weeks applying for something and getting letters and all this stuff for something that is not going to go my way.

So I'm basically gearing up to fail.

I had a nervous breakdown when the applications went in because I was just like shoving my head in my own failure.

And I ended up leaving the dorms and sleeping for 48 hours straight at my grandmother's house.

because I was trying to do something where I could never do it.

So when I got into those places, even temporarily, I was shocked.

In order to catch up, I would study for 15 hours a day, and that would last a year.

I literally feel like to this day, I have physiological problems in my body from this period of austerity, studying in London.

Because I would have to study 10 times.

One of the big mistakes I made was not staying in New York.