Staring at the weathered stone stairs loosely attached to the decrepit front porch of a worn little house in the small town of Bethesda, Ohio, I realized that my group had quite a few hours of manual labor ahead of us. Though we faced the enormous challenge of refurbishing a porch clearly not used in decades, we set to work in the scorching summer heat with the shining sun overhead. After spending eight hours in a cramped van, we were...

As I walked the campus on a brisk April morning, I knew that Northwestern was undoubtedly my dream school. Northwestern University and, more specifically, the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, have a multitude of qualities that make the school so appealing to me. Due to Northwestern’s quarter system, I would be able to sate a wide range of academic interests while still maintaining a specific area of interest in economics. While a highly competitive and alluring academic environment,...