I am not of this earth. My father sent me here to bring honor to the House of Dar by establishing our kind in human society and bringing home its wisdoms. Previous excursions to the planet had brought tales of beings of legendary might, and I was expected to become a venerated leader for Earthlings to believe in… I have always wanted to be a superhero. Ever since childhood, when I would devour the brightly colored pages of a comic...

“Since the science of economics is primarily a set of tools, as opposed to a subject matter, then no subject, however offbeat, need be beyond its reach.” Steven D. Levitt, Freakonomics “If you throw me from the window, I will leave a grieving wife. Bring me back, but in the door, and You'll see someone giving life!” The answer to this deceptive riddle is simple: the letter “n”. Yet, by the time I split the word “window” in two, the...

Prepare drafts early, and keep showing them to your peers/teachers to weed out any mistakes/account for different perspectives when shaping your essays.

I conducted interviews with Harvard, Brown, MIT, and Princeton. At these interviews, I would recommend keeping relaxed. It is important to appear genuine,...

Choose recommenders that know you well, but also make sure these recommenders can write about you well....