When I arrived at Harvard, I wanted to design a course in political theory that would have interested me, back when I was started out, in a way that the standard things didn't.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
At Harvard College, I discovered political philosophy as a way of life.
I was a Political Science major.
In my brief sojourn in college, my favorite classes were political science because I loved the idea of systems we can set up that benefit society - rules we can put in place that sometimes you run against, sometimes they're painful, but ultimately they benefit the world.
When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
I was a political science student.
History and social sciences were my interests. I was always interested in knowing how societies get organized, why there is rich and poor divide, why there are classes. I was never apolitical. I think we are all political in a way. Politics decides our day-to-day life.
I was a political science major. I was always interested in social impact.
Harvard is the home of American ideas.
When I went to Harvard and studied planning, I found I didn't have the skills or the strength to become the kind of public person who could go out and lobby government agencies.
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.