 With a wife and three young children in tow, I went off to graduate school and that really opened the door. I'm Dan Griswold. I'm a senior research fellow and co-director of the Trade and Immigration Project at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Of course, when I was a little kid, I wanted to be an astronaut who didn't. But when I went into college my freshman year, I was actually thinking of becoming an engineer. I'd always been good at math, but I also loved writing. I had written for our family newspaper and got more and more interested in public affairs. So between my freshman and sophomore year, I changed my major to journalism. And that launched a successful 12-year career in the daily newspaper business, writing free market editorials every day, and that was great fun. I'd say a turning point came in the early 1990s when we had the big debate over NAFTA. And I was very fascinated by that. I knew that NAFTA was a good thing, that Ross Perot was wrong about the giant sucking sound. But I just knew that I needed to understand more, and I thought, you know, I'd really love to write and talk about this stuff as a career. So with a wife and three young children in tow, I went off to graduate school at the London School of Economics, studied economics, international trade, and that really opened the door for my more than 20 years of work here in Washington on the public policy of trade and immigration.