An East Indian child bride at the age of nine, my great-grandmother grew up in the rural Caribbean. My other great-grandmother ran her family's general store in Covington, Georgia. The two sides of my family could not be more different. Though originally East Indian, my maternal family is from Guyana, a former British colony and Caribbean nation between Venezuela and Suriname. Later, in the 1980s, they migrated to New York, but most of them now live in Jersey City, New...

The Annenberg School for Communication at Penn seems to be the perfect place for me to explore my keen interest in journalism and it's applications through social media. In our changing world, print journalism is growing obsolete while online journalism is growing powerful. The internet not only allows the large-scale and high-speed spread of information, but also provides a useful tool in the collaboration of the masses. On a daily basis, we read stories and hear opinions from people living...

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I thought about the following characteristics when choosing schools: location, size, diversity, general education requirements, acceptance rates, and available majors. I also researched the general vibe of each school by looking at...