I was interested in the slight difference between the career advice from Jason and Sean. Sean talked about taking jobs one at a time, picking things that seemed fun and just seeing where they go. He mentioned his “biggest failure” was not getting tenure at Penn, but he ended up finding a good home at Cornell. In essence: make your work what you like doing. Jason didn’t say that he disliked his job, but he did say that he found his volunteer work more rewarding and more important to him. To me it seemed like these were opposites and I’ve often wondered which of these paths I should aim to take: make my passion a personal project or a career. One of the reasons I’ve enjoyed Cornell is that I can make some of my side passions into something that I can spend time on academically. For example, this semester I was able to take a course in digital fashion design alongside my major physics and math courses. In college I can do these both, but I’m worried that after I graduate I’ll be forced to choose between these two options.