Religious Studies brought together all of my various interests into a single major. I had the opportunity to explore and problematize the category of "religion" through various disciplinary lenses: anthropological, literary, sociological, psychological and historical. The interdisciplinary nature of the Religious Studies Program exposed me to new ways of thinking, taught me to be an effective communicator, and transformed me into a life-long learner. Through the Religious Studies Program at Cornell, I gained a sense of the philosophical and moral complexity of life, and came to appreciate that the dichotomies and categories that we create for ourselves are constructs to aid in objectification.
