From Security Guard to Harvard PhD: The Unyielding Pursuit of Excellence Yang Xiao, a 31 year old former security guard from northeastern China, has made headlines with his remarkable story.
What sets him apart is not just his perseverance in the face of repeated rejection – he applied for postgraduate study at Tsinghua University eight times before being accepted – but also the audacity of his aspirations.
Yang's ultimate goal: to pursue a PhD at Harvard, one of the most elite institutions of higher learning in the world.