Looking back on the applications I’ve done, essays I’ve written, interviews I’ve participated in, I think I can confidently say this question, or perhaps the more popular “Tell me about a time when you showed leadership”, has shown up 90% of the time. College is a time when we’re growing, constantly taking on more responsibility and pushing ourselves to try out new things. It’s a time when we’re supposed to develop those leadership skills every company out there seems to want from us, even if we don’t necessarily want to be a leader and not everyone can be one. In this seminar, GRF Sam challenged us to identify personal values mattered to us the most, and then connect those to the qualities we thought were the most important for leaders to have. When choosing my five most important values, it was fascinating to reflect on how those have changed over the years, and how those changes reflected on my personal development and what were my priorities. I definitely feel that I’ve changed for the better since my time as a freshman in high school and learned more about myself. During our discussion of the most important qualities for a leader in Cornell, most of our disagreements on values revolved around morality. The consensus agreement was that what made a good person did not always make a good leader because it would make a leader too “soft” and not strong enough to be a representative for the people. During these discussions, I realized that we might always want good people who act kindly and make moral decisions as our leaders, it may not always for “good” people to lead effectively.