Coming to India has been really interesting because it is eye opening to experience the country where my parents grew up. When I think about their journeys, it amazes me what a different life they have lived to my own.
In high school, I transitioned from playing soccer to playing football and lacrosse. These sports are more physical and more popular in the area where I grew up. Ben Horowitz, in his book The Hard thing about Hard Things, writes that for football, and for sports more generally, the ability to handle fear is 75% of the game. This rings true, and for me, sports have and continue to provide a great avenue for personal growth. In high school, we were offered a greater variety of courses, including a course in a field called economics. Economics analyzes how people make choices and the principles that underly how businesses operate. I was fascinated by this and decided to make economics my major in college. I attended Wake Forest University in North Carolina, and I graduated from there in May 2019. College, for me, was very much about building friendships and studying hard. The earlier you apply yourself in school, my experience has taught me, the more opportunities you will have to do what you want later on. And the earlier you can understand this, the more successful and content you are likely to be.
After four years of studying hard and also having loads of fun, I now have received a Fulbright research scholarship to take classes and work for one year in India. For those of you who have never been to India, I will do my best to show you what it is all about!
