My Own GPS My dad always teased, “You are a creation of your own. Limits could never stop my little girl. When you were three, you became a bird, soaring on the swings. When you were seven, you became a world-class cook, helping your mother with Thanksgiving dinner. When you were thirteen, you became a teacher, drawing and scribbling on the whiteboard while teaching your little brother Pre-Algebra. I wonder what my little girl will become next.” His little girl...

Julia Wu 09/26/1994 Star-Crossed Lovers I had always viewed my passion for economics and psychology as star-crossed lovers because I never thought that the rigid, math-oriented form of economics would allow for the free, thought-driven nature of psychology. But now I believe that Cornell University’s economics major, especially behavioral economics, could be the perfect course to help me align these two lovers and foster these interests simultaneously. I am drawn to economics and psychology because I have evolved with them...

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