“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
There are two ways to live: one as if nothing were a gift, the other as if everything were.

I want to live thanking every day for the gifts I have received: a family, friends, education, and health.

I want to live acknowledging that having all these gifts is a privilege.

I want to help others get access to these privileges.

I want to live helping others to acknowledge that life itself is a gift.

— Guillermo Villanueva

The Portrait Project

Each year we ask our classmates a straightforward, simple question taken from the lines of a poem by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Mary Oliver. We share with you intimate and candid responses to this question, "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"

Concept and photography: Tony Deifell, MBA '02

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