Tag: Studying

I’ve always had an affinity for languages. I’d owe much of this to growing up bilingual, but must also give proper credit to my childhood friends, who came from a variety of backgrounds — Mexican, Iranian, Chinese — and spoke the respective languages with their families. ...

When you’re trying to learn or improve your English, you might feel tempted to grab any grammar book from Amazon.com and work your way through them. You may have been studying English in school for exams and feel that your English is not improving. Does studying grammar really improve your Eng...

When I decided to spend the next four years and a half of my life immersed in fashion, my vision wasn’t entirely accurate. Since I was ten years old, I have loved fashion, perhaps younger, so my future looked very glamourous because that’s all I saw about fashion growing up. In the &r...

Research is only valuable when the sample of patients includes people from all groups, but that hasn’t always been their design, and it leaves a gaping hole in the results. Photo by Emily Morter on Unsplash Years ago, while visiting a major pharmaceutical firm engaged ...

Peace, a holistic state of well-being encompassing inner serenity, harmony with others, and connection to the Divine. It echoes in the greeting “As-salamu alaykum,” a wish for peace upon you, whispered like a gentle breeze carrying blessings. Oneness, the fundamental truth of Islam &m...

This summer, I went to Dublin. I love Dublin. I lived there a couple of years, and it’s safe to say that those years might have been some of the most interesting ones of my life. It’s not the first time I’m coming back for a quick visit. This year, though, I thoug...

When I was dropped off by my parents in Dublin, it definitely felt like I had a huge mountain ahead of me. The college had messed up my enrollment and placed me in the wrong classes, my accommodations were messed up as well since the building completion date was delayed, and I was going to have to f...

If moving the world is something that moves your heart and designing transport is something that tickles your grey cells, automobile engineering is probably the best fit in higher education for you! This special branch of mechanical engineering has everything to do with the design, development and m...

I have come to appreciate the significance of connecting with individuals who share a similar journey of self-discovery and self-improvement in terms of understanding their own identity. Establishing a personal connection with someone is extremely reassuring, and it brings me peace to know that I&rs...