This week on the podcast, Aya Sallam joined us to speak about switching majors from engineering to literature at the American University Of Sharjah, working as an intern in one of the oldest museums in the world and travelling to Japan.
Being yourself isn’t always an easy task. Being authentic with your intentions, ideas and feelings can be difficult, especially if we come from a background where that isn’t encouraged. It all boils down to costs. What do you have to lose from being who you truly think you are? For some people in very unfortunate
In this episode, we spoke to Suzan Sadek a junior studying Interactive Media at NYU Abu Dhabi. She spoke of her passion for marking music, how art and tech work hand in hand & how school has been a great vehicle to travel the world.
While many of our efforts are aimed towards the future, taking time to ground ourselves in the present is very important. If we think of life as if we’re in the middle of a forest, we obviously want to move to brighter pastures. The next turn that we make is all predicated upon where we
At school and in the workplace, the idea of “staying busy” often worsens the problems it promises to solve. We may have flashbacks of days in the classroom where we were assigned busy work, just to keep our minds occupied. In retrospect though, what did we really learn or accomplish? Keeping this same train
On this edition of the podcast, we spoke with Shereen Abdulla, a Bahraini who currently operates the Middle East's largest FinTech accelerator program. She spoke about her journey in education thus far, her experience in the financial industry and gives great advice to those interested in getting into the realm of startups.
Keeping your body and brain intact is the key to being a high performing student. Our stomachs are our ‘second brains,’ digesting the necessary nutrients to keep us fueled up and energetic enough to take care of our tasks. Like any discipline in life, we should make the right choices to feed our bodies the
Keeping in mind that life is a journey, sometimes we don’t know exactly where we are in the race. Remaining motivated has a lot to do with the narratives we tell ourselves as well. Sometimes “good enough” or “enough to get by” works in the meantime, but how sustainable is that to our development and
This week, we sat down with Shaima Al-Qassab, a chemical engineer, an Emerati entrepreneur and president of the local chapter of AIESEC. In this episode, she spoke about finding her passion, her definition of an "entrepreneurial mindset" and being in a work space with people from 126 countries.
The path to living a more fulfilled life comes down to structure. Being bold and assertive is important in forging the clay in which we can mold our goals. It is through the chiseling and constant check up that we can form the life that we desire. What happens around our actions is often just
