<p>Why you are a good fit for your undergraduate school choice (College of Arts and Sciences, School of Nursing, The Wharton School, or Penn Engineering). Please tell us about specific academic, service, and/or research opportunities at the University of Pennsylvania that resonate with your background, interests, and goals.</p>
<p>Hey, what are we get for lunch today? my friend asked.
I dont know. Theres Chipotle, Boston Market, Chelsea Market, pizza, bareburger, sandwich, Starbucks, and more. I replied.</p>
<p>As I contemplated my lunch with my friend, that was when it hit me; I only have a general idea of what I want to do in life but I do not know what it is, specifically. </p>
<p>With this one revelation I only looked for colleges that allowed me to study without the confinement of only one of its schools. It was difficult, in fact it began to feel implausible. Fear began to creep up on me with the thought that colleges have evolved into these institutions that promoted the idea of college as a path towards self-discovery but wanted students who have already unraveled their passions. What a paradox! </p>
<p>My fear was replaced with hope when I opened up the Fiske book to page by pure coincidence. It read University of Pennsylvania. I started reading with ineffable excitement. Why am I so excited its probably going to promote its trite uniqueness like every other school..., I thought. My instincts proved right when my eyes laid sight upon two words that were unheard of in the college process, interdisciplinary studies, I could not contain enthusiasm. That was all the encouragement I needed to find myself typing UPenn into my Google search engine.</p>
<p>I can finally say my untamed curiosity in the mystery of people and the beauty of math is acceptable and capable of being soothe with the sweet option of a custom curriculum. Before I thought a rigid curriculum was one I would have to abide to through college Although this lack of choice inevitably taught me to look at subjects that did not tickle my fancy with an open-mind, it is time to take my education into my own hands with of course the help of a interdisciplinary studies option. I hope to one day be studying for an exam on my class of Analytical Methods for Engineering and the next signing up for the class, Drugs, Brain, and Mind. Coming from New York, I have received an abundance of exposure to many people on a daily basis whom include drug addicts. But they are just observations, at UPenn I hope to have the ability to understand the effects of not just the brain as it is physically but also psychologically.</p>