Katherine Boyle

I mean, we had shuttered all of our international bureaus by the time I had gotten there.

So it was a paper that was clearly in decline.

And I saw it.

For me, it was just, OK, this is a job.

I can learn something.

And the original dream didn't work out.

But I knew I had to leave.

And when she told me that her husband got in, I was like, well,

I'm different.

I know nothing about business.

You just have to get a decent score on a test and write a good essay.

I'm like, I know I can write an essay.

That's probably one of the few things I can do.

So I got really, really lucky.

I got off the wait list last minute.

I actually found out I was on the wait list on a reporting trip to Beirut.

I was on the plane, and I was checking my phone, and you're supposed to get a phone call from the dean of the school, and no one's ringing.

And as I'm taking off to go to Beirut from DC, I'm like, I'm not getting in.

I'm just going to be a reporter forever.

And I land and see the email, and it's like, you're on the wait list.