CREDITS

I am immensely thankful for my professor Colleen Macklin and tutor Sel Quist for their unwavering support, helping me wade through all my ideas and research these past months. I am also grateful for the chance to interview Ashwin Gopi, Alice Yuan Zhang, Livia Foldes, and Micheal Schober, gaining their invaluable insight.

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