Bio:
Tiffany Ikeda is an Economics major at the University of Southern California. A Southern California native, Ikeda’s broad interests are influenced by the dynamic diversity of the West Coast. Interested in learning more about the world around us, Ikeda is specializing in Cyber Security and completing a minor in the Natural Sciences; her current research examines coupled tectonics and pluton emplacement in the Sierra Nevadas.
Ikeda has worked as a computer technology teaching assistant for three years at Mount St. Mary’s College and at USC. She is a strong believer that technological adeptness is a necessary skill to remain competitive in the workforce, and enjoys helping her students learn how to use software to incorporate multimedia into their presentations and projects. Applications covered in her classes include PowerPoint, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, and even the enterprise resource planning program SAP.
Ikeda has been accepted to law programs at NYU, Columbia, Duke, and USC, and plans on specializing in Cyber Law.
HAPPINE$$: An Economic Perspective
HAPPINE$$ draws upon concepts from economic theory and social psychology to examine how everyday personal and social decisions affect self-reported levels of happiness. Adapting traditional experiments from these two fields of study, the project allows the user to be an active participant through their own multimedia experiences.
Throughout the project, the user has the ability to navigate and play with various experiments that highlight the discrepancies between anticipated and experienced utility. Participation in these experiments if followed by a thorough explanation of the significance of this experiment to understanding the broader concept of how we view our own decisions and its impact on happiness.
The goal of this multidisciplinary project is for the user to gain a deeper understanding and appreciation for the application of economic principles to well-being, and thereby foster more knowledgeable personal decisions-making.
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Bio: I like the way you work in your LA background with your diverse interests. The last sentence could say you plan on specializing in Cyberlaw in whichever school you choose and you could also tie this into your belief that tech mastery is a key 21st century skill.
Abstract: The dollar signs are a perfect graphical indication of the project. You might add a line to explain which type of personal and social decisions you mean--even just a clause that says "from the car people drive to the jobs they choose".
The last sentence: fix "decisions-making" to the singular and you might use the phrase "better informed" instead of knowledgeable since ostensibly, it's an awareness thing, right? Also you might explain (really briefly) what "anticipated and experienced utility" means--e.g. are people really more glamorous when they drive a Rolls? (okay, not the best example ;-)
Such a great project!
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