Once more, I was saying goodbye. A year earlier, I had left the comfort of Canada, to face the unknown of Berlin, 4000 miles away. The unknown had quickly transformed itself into the familiar. Now back in Montreal for a brief visit, I was feeling as though I were a foreigner, a foreigner in the sense that I didn’t quite fit in anymore. I was now preparing myself to leave again. I knew the process all too well: the incredibly...

After having written my IB Extended Essay in economics, done my history Internal Assessment on the effectiveness of Mao’s economic policies and read countless economics-related articles, I have grown more convinced that economics is my prime passion. Through the Penn Institute for Economic Research and its seven research programs, I would have the opportunity not only to develop this passion but also to find an area of economics in which I can specialize. Combined with the Penn World Table,...

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