People always seem incredibly surprised to hear that my siblings are so much older than me, and often punctuate their surprise with “Wow you must have been an accident!” or they assume that we are only half related. I know that we are all one family, but being so much younger than my sister, Monica (14 years), and brother, Michael (11 years), has made our experiences very different. I have lived in Weston, Florida my whole life. They lived in Austin, Boston,...

While participating in the Penn Early Exploration Program, I attended a lecture given by Dr. Karen Hogan; she explained how two seemingly disparate fields, biology and design, intersect at Penn, and how common this interdisciplinary approach is in all of Penn’s four schools. I look forward to taking a wide variety of classes from Political Communications in the Annenberg School to Energy Economics and Policy in Wharton. Ultimately, I hope to major in Political Science and Environmental Studies in...