Margaret Mead's Autobiography

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The day I found out what I wanted to do is a very clear memory for me. I was sitting in psychology class learning about _______. The name of a famous anthropologist, Margaret Mead, came up in a study that we were analyzing. Many people in my class laughed at the word anthropologist, mostly because of how funny it rolled off the tongue. While I laughed along with my classmates, a part of me was extremely fascinated on the study behind that funny word. I was intrigued by her work of going into other cultures and studying humans. I realized in that moment, in psychology class, that cultures and people intrigue me.

People have always been an innate, natural curiosity for me. We are the subject in life that we know the best, yet somehow we are

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