Cornell University

I hopped into my friend's car, having just finished my first day of Cornell summer macroeconomics class. Exhilarated by what I had learned, I spent the fifteen- minute drive to the gym explaining to him the law of diminishing marginal returns and how the concept encourages manufacturers to adopt automation to eliminate human error... Silence…I asked him if he heard me. He responded, “yes, but whether or not I care is a different question.” In hindsight, his reaction made sense: economics can be boring for some. But economics fascinates me given its interdisciplinary nature—combining math,…