As mentioned above, I majored in economics at the University of Washington, Seattle, taking courses on econometrics and international econ, in addition to general micro, macro, and statistics.

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I also enjoy fulfillment from doing my best to learn foreign languages and interacting with people born and raised overseas. To various extents I've studied a number of languages from French to Mandarin, but thanks to a series of happy coincidences, I've ended up focusing on Japanese these past few years. I currently find myself in Niigata Prefecture, following a semester of study at Tokyo's Hitotsubashi University.

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I am also incredibly interested in physiology, psychology, biology, physics, ...pretty much anything to do with the mysteries of the universe or the peculiarities life on Earth.

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Then, of course, we come to data. Data is merely the general term we use for the measurements of these so-called peculiarities, but it also happens to be (in my opinion, perhaps) the ultimate resource. In economics, in economic game theory, for instance, information is  considered either complete or not quite so. But the truth is, in reality information is always incomplete. It is impossible to dissect the infinitely complex web of causes and effects from the beginning of time (or even earlier?) that led to any given outcome we wish to explain. As such, the best we can do is estimate as accurately as possible with the information we do have (as scarce as it is).

 

This, put excruciatingly briefly, is why I am fascinated by data and hope to make a career out of data exploration. It is a resource that will be scarce long after we have solved the problem of renewable energy, and honestly we are just getting started.