Over the past five weeks I’ve been part of a team of Duke students that’s been running a college-prep program for Navajo high school students.
As part of the program, we’ve been doing standardized test preparation, teaching college life skills, going on college visits and working on college applications.
The response from our students, however, hasn’t been [...]

My older brother, Jonathan, owns a gym and he’s really into health and fitness. He recently did a radio interview where he was asked fitness-related questions. During the interview, he said something which I thought was pretty striking:
“We have confused what is average with what is normal. It is average to be obese, to have [...]

Today was the first class of the semester. In total, there were 8 senior citizens and 4 Duke students present.
To start off the class, the 3 student instructors introduced ourselves and talked about the course in general. I spoke for a few minutes about what I think the true purpose of education is– in this [...]

I do my best to constantly try out new things, and one of the things I’m giving my hand at this semester is teaching a class.
I’ve decided to write a weekly post about what it’s like teaching the class, so that I can share the experience with you and also consolidate what I’ve learned as [...]

I saw this equation on my friend’s blog a while ago. She was going through a rough time in her life and she was pretty depressed, mainly because people had let her down.
She fully believed this equation to be true. She thought that her expectations of people and of life were too high– the denominator [...]