Honors/scholarships/awards: Best thing about my major: Philosophy not only invites you to be in conversation with the greatest thinkers of all time, but it also gives you permission to disagree with them. It’s exciting and invigorating to consider the “big questions.” I often joke with my friends about my essay topics—while they are examining the intersections of gender and race in the Olympics or critiquing the class disparities in 18th-century British literature, I am being asked to determine whether values are real, if God exists and what personal identity is. I sometimes wonder: ...