Last year, to get a holistic picture of business management, I founded an Entrepreneur Club at my school sponsored by Junior Achievement. As a diverse group of budding entrepreneurs with varied cultural experiences, our viewpoints resulted in memorable discussions of investment and marketing expenditure for a virtual gadget. I was impacted by how data analysis combined with business acumen facilitates decision making. In addition, I observed how other disciplines as diverse as Psychology or History could strengthen our assessments. Columbiaâ€...

To my surprise, as set as I was on a Hotel Management major, last February a Cornell lecture shook my mindset. I spent three nights at Cornell through the Red Carpet Overnight Ambassador program and sat on eight lectures ranging from Hotel Operations to Modern European History. I was ambivalent about going since it would be my fourth campus visit; however my parents suggested that I see Ithaca during the winter. I had participated in CAU camps and attended my...