For most of my life I had considered leadership a quality which needed to be sought after relentlessly in order to be attained. It seemed to me to be a trait that required ceaseless campaigning, a tireless search for consensus that gave the distinct impression of a popularity contest. Never in my life had I wished for this type of superficial control; I was always content as long as I could lead myself. It had never occurred to me that...

Ever since I first stepped foot on Duke's campus as part of the TIP program I knew this was where I wanted to be. The entire atmosphere of the campus seemed to be bursting with accomplished goals,from the professors to the students to the buildings themselves. The surrounding community is also incredibly nurturing to novel ideas. From the coffee shops on Ninth Street to the Sarah Duke Gardens, Durham is a good place to think, and the entire Research...

UCHICAGO 2014 "JOKE" PROMPT: Eighteenth century English writer Joseph Addison once said that “if we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.” Science has come a long way since the days of Addison, and laughter may soon fall into the category of qualities once thought to be distinctly human, such as logic and language, that are now known to be more universal in the animal kingdom. Regardless, laughter remains one of the...

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