The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything

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What does Harvard do for your salary?

Harvard makes you feel rich.

I walked through campus for two years feeling like I’d been cast as Moneybags in a movie about ruling the world and having it all.

On Harvard’s campus, tall twisting oak trees blow softly in the wind, casting polka-dot shadows over beautiful red-brick buildings, manicured ivy, and rolling lawns. Students ease open thirty-foot-tall carved wooden doors before stepping into marble-tiled libraries. Between classes, students grab made-to-order sushi from the cafeteria before eating with friends on brown leather couches against walls covered with expensive original art.

The students at Harvard Business School feel rich because they either are rich . . . or they’re about to get rich.

The average graduating salary is $120,000!

To put that in perspective, the average American makes $24,000.

That means a fresh-faced, dewy-eyed twenty-six-year-old with two years of business school under his or her belt makes five times what the average American citizen makes. I know my salary almost tripled after I graduated from Harvard. Yes, Harvard makes you feel rich because it actually makes you rich.

Or does it?