On the first episode of By the Bench, host Diya Choksey sat down with College and Wharton junior Socrates Okong’o to hear his take on the Penn experience — and how he’s investing in his passion after abandoning the conventional route.
Footage by Savannah Chun, Cora Jin, and Damya Woodall
Editing by Uma Mukhopadhyay
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