Decory Edwards chose to study economics and mathematics as an undergraduate at Trinity University due to his interest in the intersection between mathematical inquiry and problems in the social sciences. Topics in decision theory, game theory, mechanism design, and network science are all examples of theoretical frameworks that may lend themselves to answering questions in the social sciences. Currently, Decory is a predoctoral research student in the Yale Emerging Scholars Initiative; in this position, he works with Marina Halac and is taking economic theory courses. Further, Decory is also working with Florian Ederer in the Yale School of Management as a research assistant. As part of the McNair Scholars Program, Decory conducted research with Dr. John Huston (Economics). Compelled by Robert Shiller’s 2017 presidential address on narratives in economics, we aimed to better understand the interaction between media coverage and stock prices through history. We analyzed the impact of stock marketrelated media articles on stock market returns from four historical eras known as “bubble periods.” Ultimately, these efforts led to our submission of the manuscript to the academic journal, The American Economist, where it is currently in revise-and-resubmit status. While at the AEA Summer Program Decory completed post-baccalaureate level courses in the advanced track for microeconomic theory, mathematical methods for economics, and econometrics at Michigan State University. While there, he also conducted a joint research project advised by Drs. Lisa Cook and Prabhat Barnwal of Michigan State (Economics). Decory applied the skills he learned while working with Dr. Huston on time series data and methods to develop an autoregressive model. Following existing work on the environmental Kuznets curve and income inequality, we collected income and wealth inequality data from the World Inequality Database and an array of measures for environmental sustainability (energy use, CO2 emissions, etc) from the World Bank’s database. Lastly, in his short time as a predoctoral fellow at Yale, Decory feels that he has truly begun his training as an economic theorist. Decory loves the courses that he is taking, as well as the research that he is working on. HIs involvement in the Yale PREP program has been a sort of simulation of graduate student life, and he looks forward to continuing graduate studies in the near future.