University of California

PROMPT: Think about an academic subject that inspires you. Describe how you have furthered this interest inside and/or outside of the classroom. Through books like Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl about his incarceration at Auschwitz and documentaries like Enemies of the People about the Khmer Rouge, history has taught me that human empathy knows no borders. My favorite “history nerd” moments occur when I can explain a modern socio- political phenomenon by drawing connections to a historical event, like tying the gender pay gap to the Neolithic Revolution and linking recent voting…