Harvard University

"You’ll understand when you’re older.” “You don’t need to know now.” “Shush, go play.” These were the slogans of my life, growing up. My unquenchable desire and desperation to know and understand everything became too much for my exhausted and overworked parents. They wished to help me, but they did not know how. No program or class I was enrolled in was ever enough. My curiosity towered over even the most qualified of teachers. There are over 170,000 words in the English language, yet no word will ever be as crucial to my existence as the word why? An obsession with that three-letter word…