I’ll admit; sometimes I worry about myself. One of my earliest memories should apply to a middle-aged businessman, not an elementary school kid. Facing the drudgery of a long back-seat car ride, I was probably so melodramatic to complain of being “bored to death,” but as the dashboard read five p.m., my ears caught the notes of the radio show’s introduction. I became rapt with attention waiting for the familiar sound of those three simple words: “This...

Given the seemingly never-ending list of required classes needed to graduate, I consider myself lucky to have uncovered a genuine interest through what has undoubtedly been my favorite high school class: AP Economics. My initial attraction to economics was likely due to its character as a social science. I have always enjoyed the logic and theory of science and math, but economics balances that rationality with real-life application. In class there was no need for the textbook to give forced-sounding �...

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