Walking through each day of my life, I try to acknowledge the countless examples of how fortunate I am. Something as simple as eating a banana becomes more significant when I consider how that piece of fruit came to be here. It was probably grown in a distant country, perhaps Brazil, before being shipped across oceans, driven across land, and stocked in my grocery store, all before the curved yellow fruit became ripe. Casually biting down on a ripe banana...

If I were to change anything about my application process it would be to decide early which...