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Cross. He had risen to the position of vice president with a Medford-based healthcare technology company, despite dropping out of college soon after he began back in 2007. But he had unfinished business and higher ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI dreamed of going to Oxford as a kid and, around 2018, I started having these profound feelings of regret that I hadn\u2019t been the sort of person who could accomplish those dreams,\u201d Cross said. \u201cI felt like the opportunities of my life had passed me by and, despite having a successful career, that I had squandered my potential.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApplying to SOU was my way of rejecting that negative thinking. I decided that I wasn\u2019t going to let the failures of my past define me, and live the rest of my life with regret. 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