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Today is my 22nd birthday and as I woke up to face the reality of getting one year older, a wave of anxiety washed over me. What am I supposed to do with my life? Like many of my contemporaries, I constantly ask myself what I want to do with…

Reflections from my time walking alongside some of the most ambitious students I’ve ever met — I have a big announcement to make. After months of occasionally staying up all night with my fellow 20-something young adults with 50-somethings’ backs, I have just recently graduated from the 14th wave of Young Leaders for Indonesia! In case you’re not familiar, it’s a leadership program initiated by McKinsey…

My life has felt like a sequence of stepping stones lately. completing primary school so I could learn the fundamentals for secondary school, then taking the WAEC to earn the necessary credentials to attend university. Now that I’m 19 years old, I’m still trying to convince myself that because I…

Jeff Giliberti, a Master’s student in computer science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH Zürich), wanted to get more involved in the university’s tech community and decided to lead his university’s Google Developer Student Club (GDSC). Jeff, who is from Italy and has a bachelor’s degree in…

TED talks are a great way to be exposed to some of the worlds top minds and their interests. They cover pretty much anything, from theories to technical problems and everything in-between! Some people use TED Talks as a way to find inspiration and in this article, we'll introduce you…

The world has changed, and the startup ecosystem has not been left untouched. Valuations are down, investments are scarce, and lay-offs are happening across the field. But the most resilient startups are built in recessions! …

I heard a teacher say once, “I am not here to have relationships with students or even to be liked. I am here to teach them the content. That’s it.” There might be more educators out there like this who feel the same way. But, what if we discovered that…