My Infatuation With Coding

Growing up, my conservative parents would often (with good intentions) limit my freedom. Perhaps that is where my infatuation with coding stems from. Coding gave me an outlet to rebel against those restrictions, my imagination the only barrier to what was possible. The thrill of coding captivated me. When I coded, I was a painter. The cursor was my brush, the keys my strokes, the sea of structured words my painting. This passion soon bled into my academic life and resulted in my taking the most advanced Computer Science courses that my school had to offer. My hunger not sated, I took college level courses on edX and Coursera, frequented GitHub and tackled complex problem sets. Nowadays, rarely does a day pass without me typing a line of code.
In fact, I dropped it my sophomore year due to it seeming inconsequential and boring. During my junior year, I was in dire straits, in danger of being ousted from the competitive debating team due to my lack of economic know-how. I began reading multitudes of Economics books. Soon, however, I realized that I was reading not out of necessity but out of curiosity. Economics afforded me a greater understanding of the world which I absolutely loved. I came to see economics as all-encompassing, affecting everything from the price of milk to violent revolutions. While the analytical nature of economics enthralled me, it was the importance of human behavior that drew me in. To me, economics was both an art and a science, a discipline so intricately interwoven into society and life that it seemed