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As a kid growing up in North Carolina, Prakash Mishra was interested in planets.
As a kid growing up in North Carolina, Prakash Mishra was interested in planets.
The short version
- "My parents got me a telescope when I turned 6 or 7, and that was my personality for probably 10 years," he says, noting that he thought he would eventually study physics or astrophysics.
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What happened
But a series of what he calls "happy accidents" led him down a different path. He went to the University of Pennsylvania to study biochemical engineering but ended up earning a bachelor's degree in economics in 2019.
Why it matters
Six years later, he completed a doctorate, also at Penn, in applied economics.
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