MS. HALPERN: I also have been blessed, I believe, by other people’s high expectations. At my sickest time, I was on a 1-year medical leave from Harvard graduate school, I could not read nor write, and my IQ was 70. But my doctor believed that in 3 months I was going back to school. I thought it was laughable, but it’s incredibly powerful to have somebody set the bar high and say, “We will do this together”