Global awareness is something that is close to my heart, I believe more people need to travel outside their own country in order to get more cultural perspectives. I’ve done this several times: I went to Ecuador and Costa Rica and stayed with host families in order to live through a day in the average life of a middle class family in Costa Rica and Ecuador. I hope to study abroad this summer in Sweden or Spain, in order to get more of a global look at what it’s like in Europe.
Furthermore, Original inquiry is important to me as well, because I hope to do research either freshman year during spring semester or during autumn semester sophomore year. I’m very interested in the effect drugs have on the brain and how they can be used to treat psychological disorders. I also have many questions on how the brain functions and I hope to learn more through my neuroscience classes and any research opportunities that present themselves.