582-word version: International Studies – Carnegie Mellon
Since I was five or six years old, my dad every so often sat with me with a colorful globe of the world and talked to me about how many different nations, cultures and peoples existed on earth and how intriguing and exciting a life of cosmopolitan would be. Ever since, his stories of the world from history to geography to civilization have always captured my imagination...

 

442-word version: International Studies – Carnegie Mellon
Since I was five or six years old, my dad every so often sat with me with a colorful globe of the world and talked to me about how many different nations, cultures and peoples existed on earth and how intriguing and exciting a life of cosmopolitan would be. Ever since, his stories of the world from history to geography to civilization have always captured my imagination...