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Interview with Howey Qiu
- Tell us about yourself.
- My name is Howey, and I was a student on a Gap Year before going to study Statistics and Economics at the University of Chicago. I love working with numbers, although my family have been chemists for generations and much of that still sticks with me. I spend way too much time watching and studying baseball. I also enjoy gaming and cooking.
- Hometown
- Mystic, CT
- High School
- Milton Academy
- What is your passion?
- I have always been very interested in the way numbers can tell a story about a situation. Lately, the focus has been on how we set internal values for things or people and how to accurately compare those against each other.
- Career ambition?
- I think my dream job would be to work with or be the GM of an MLB team. Realistically, I want to get my degrees, work in business for several years, and then go into research.
- Why did you choose to attend the AU Gap program?
- I already knew I wanted to come to DC, find an internship, and take classes, and the AU Gap Program offered all three of those things. It was also one of the few programs I could find that focused on pre-college gap students, and it gave me the chance to experience college life in more of a transitional way.
- Where was your Gap Internship?
- 1776, a startup incubator based in DC.
- Where are you going after Gap?
- The University of Chicago '19. After that, it's up in the air.
- Favorite experience while in the AU Gap Program?
- I really enjoyed one of my assignments that had me interview a staff member at my internship. It was about their college and career path, how they ended up where they are, and what their future plans were. It was a conversation I probably would not have had otherwise, and it was fun to sit down and chat.
- Describe your AU Gap experience in one word or phrase.
- Immersive