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Sunday Brunch vs Nasty Chicken Fingers

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“But what happened to doing tech theatre at NYU?” I desperately asked my friend Dani, after hearing she was no longer even planning to apply to her dream school.  “That’s a really great dream for a someone who can afford 70k a year ,” she replied. “But it can’t even be an option for me.” My first reaction was disbelief. I couldn’t imagine my parents not supporting my passions financially. I’d attended lesson after masterclass after summer program to further my extracurriculars. The idea of my parents saying, “You can’t go, it’s just too expensive” was unknown to me.   Summer of 2015, I started to become interested in neuroscience as a  possible major and/or career. I applied for the National Student Leadership Conference's Neuro & Psych program, and was allowed to attend as soon as I was accepted, without question of finances.  Photo by another NSLC participant. I spent both summer 2014 and 2015 doing summer programs at Berklee College of Music in Bos