Cassie Kozyrkov

Choice number two is you go to the technical college part of the university system.

Or choice number three is you go to the university part of the university system.

That's it, those are your three choices.

So there I am.

I'm 17 years old.

I'm studying economics, mathematical statistics, and applied statistics.

These two statistics were in different departments.

They had their courses at the same time, because it never occurred to anyone that someone would want to study both of them.

So I always had an alibi.

If the class was boring, I'd be like, I'm going next door.

And then I'd be like, oh, I'm going back next door.

I'd run between these two things.

I had to be in two places at once, like Hermione and Harry Potter.

But there I am in my economics class, 17.

And the professor says this.

Because eventually things that are fun caught up with me.

Let's hear it for Cassie.

So there I am.

I'm in an economics class at this university that is, as far as I'm concerned, the only option, you know, this is where we go.

If you go to higher education, that's where.