 Hello! My name is Abby and I am a second year undergraduate at UCLA majoring in Psychobiology. A memorable learning experience I had occurred in a world history class I took my sophomore year of high school. Towards the end of the year, our curriculum had finally caught up to current global events. Instead of simply explaining the events to us, lecture style, my teacher introduced a project that really made us think critically about international political issues, a Model UN. For this project, students had to choose a country to represent in a current political issue the country was facing to research and present an argument about, from the perspective of that country. During our presentations, other students, each representing their own various countries, scrutinized our research and our arguments, demonstrating first hand the multifaceted perspectives on these issues. Because my teacher assigned this type of project instead of simply lecturing, I was able to better understand how complex these topics were and the efforts of the countries themselves. It was a unique way to force us to realize the many perspectives involved in each political situation and analyze and engage with them critically rather than hear a one-dimensional point of view on the issues. All in all, our learning was facilitated by first hand experience and personal involvement in the topics, leading to a much stronger learning experience than with the traditional.