Advice
The One Time You Do Want Your Mom In Your Room: Dorm Cleaning Tips
Yes, even your dorm rooms need a good spring cleaning. It has taken a beating from you and your roommate and it gets no love—dirty clothes strewn across the floor, bedding that never gets washed and a three-week old pizza box...
Photographic Trick to aid Children fight Child Abuse
How can organizations aimed at putting an end to child abuse send a message to children without also tipping off adults? It might be as simple as creating an ad that only children can see. A Spanish organization called Fundaci...
The question with a D’lemma – Foundation or A levels
It wasn’t long back (just a year ago), when I was thinking about my University options I literally had a panic attack! All I had in my head was, “What if I don’t get accepted?! What if I don’t get in any...
Beating Online Bullies: Fight Fire With Education
Let’s say you’re a kid and you’re perusing you’re favorite site with a Facebook tab open in another window. You hear the familiar “blinngk” noise that sounds when someone wants to talk to you. You ...
A Thin Line Between Expectation & Hope
An opportunity knocks at your door. Life gives you a second chance. Do you hope, or do you expect to make it better? Does hope for a better life sound good enough, or an expectation sounds appropriate? Well, till sometime back,...
Night Before Exams
Must study….must study…..!!! This is it…. I prayed…really really hard…then I sat on my cozy bed, prepared to study for my forthcoming exams …I just have to start with History first, then Political Science, Geography...
Take Time to Reflect
Last weekend, I did something I rarely do… I took 36 hours off to reflect. Off-off. No cell phone. No lap-top. No Google analytics. No Twitter or Facebook. Nada device-related input. And when we do that, we have the chance t...
Cut Cake, Not Wrists: A Speech for Teenage Depression
Hello, my name is Dean Beirne, and I’m here to talk about this one word we fear: depression. I feel you should listen to me as I am not some old adult who has succeeded in life, but I am a teenager like you. I have gone t...
LinkedIn Super Secret!
Sending someone a “Connect” invite on LinkedIn? Chances are they have very little time to check their LinkedIn “Connection” Requests (they likely have many of them), and if they don’t THINK they know you, don’t re...
How to make use of wasted time?
At times when I ask my friends about how their day was, some of the most common answers I hear are “Ah! We had nothing much to do. Slept and ate all day”, or “It was boring! Not much to do anyways” or &#...
How to manage people who bother you?
Have you ever come across people who bother you? I am sure most of us have faced such people before. At times, its alright if we face them once or twice, but there are times when such people appear during every stage of our lif...
How to expect less from people??
Much of our sadness comes from expectations, such as the scenarios in our minds about the possible outcomes of certain situations. This could be regarding how careers will work out, how long relationships would last, or will a ...
How to quit your bad habits?
It is never too late to quit your bad habits, and even more important, it is key to have a happy and a healthier life, both in the present and the future. Below are some of the bad habits you might want to refrain from, and fol...
Hope – The Answer to a Perfect Life
“My life is perfect” is a phrase that one tends to say when they get everything they want from their life. A good job, a great family, a sweet partner, amazing friends and so on! Above all, you are happy with how yo...
Oh, Grow Up: Your Shadow
Whenever a certain topic from your past surfaces to your conscious mind, a tremor follows and an automatic shutdown like the ones in highly secured military facilities ensues. Complete with the red lights and sirens. Familiar? ...
Oh, Grow Up: Focus, Take Action
Here we go again, flipping through a hundred books at the same time. But you can understand, we’re just eager to connect the dots and uncover our dreams. Sometimes though, the unfinished pages and incomplete strategies could ...
Take your Job Search Seriously…
If you’re not going to take your job search seriously, please don’t expect me – or recruiters and hiring managers – to do so either. As post-recession hiring continues to increase, and as employers begin to fill more in...
Networking Is NOT a Fast Food Drive-thru
Much better than the actual food, the concept of the fast food drive-thru is wonderful. You enter the drive-thru… have a brief encounter with a person to order your food… and pay. Three simple steps to satisfy your immediat...
Oh, Grow Up: Affirmation
Even though articles usually need an introduction to ease the reader into the subject, this time I am getting right to the point. That was an affirmation, and we are exploring that area of self-development today. Affirmations a...
Oh, Grow Up: Influencing a Generation
We are not the first generation of youth to be stereotyped as “spoiled”, “useless” and “ungrateful”. Yet, we may be the first to not just collectively believe it to the extent of manifesting it into our lives. Thank...
