<p>I got to actually meet professor Heckman and my god, he was one of the most amazing people I have ever met. There was some conference on helping the poor through economics headed by him and I was invited via email to meet him. When I got to the place, the security was like this is a closed event, we don’t allow high schoolers here but the moment I showed them Heckman’s email they let me through. I got to see and witness some of the most cutting edge reasearch in the field of economics during my visit and I must say, the quality and standard of people at the University is unparalelled. Heckman and I actually dicussed for a good 30 minutes about the implications of the reasearch shown and I still cannot believe that he, a nobel prize winning professor was talking to me, a high school student. He then gave me a bunch of contacts into the finance department at Uchicago and I truly believe that if the professors there were able to do so much for me, imagine how well they must treat current undergraduate students.</p>