Prompt: Discuss an accomplishment or event, formal or informal, that marked your transition from childhood to adulthood within your culture, community, or family.      I soon learned that the curfew at 11 was a running joke among the mentors and admins. I was constantly tired and could be seen digging my nails into my skin to keep myself awake during lectures. We had what NASA called “working lunches” - most of the work came from trying to stuff down your third slice...

Describe two or three of your current intellectual interests and why they are exciting to you. Why will Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences be the right environment in which to pursue your interests?

    I leaned over my friend’s shoulder to study the small graph of the DreamWorks stock that came up on Google.     “We should buy it”, I said with a vigorous nod of my head. This was just one example of the many bad decisions I would make throughout The Stock Market Game.  We played this game in our Economics and Personal Finance class, and I was definitely that one person who took it too seriously. I would read articles on...

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