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-5 posts tagged "failure"
Julianna Conley | Wednesday, March 16, 2022
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: LinkedIn is the best social media platform from which to Internet-investigate your latest acquaintance. You get a clear shot of their face, plainly stated majors and minors, a list of their “activities and societies,” the name of their dorm if they’re involved in hall council and
Colleen Fischer | Thursday, May 6, 2021
(Or: A coming-of-age essay about giving up on your dreams) Step One: Want to start a band All failed bands start the same way with someone wanting to start a band. If you talked to me in high school and asked me if I wanted to start a band, I would probably say that bands
Elizabeth Hascher | Wednesday, March 2, 2016
In 2010, Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg gave a TED talk that addressed why so few women reach the top of their fields. She suggested that not many women can be found in the upper echelons of the business world because women do not “lean in” — in other words, women are largely responsible
Neil Joseph | Tuesday, January 19, 2016
About a year ago, I was in an incredibly different place than where I am right now — quite literally (I’m in London now, I was in South Bend then). But also in incredibly more ways. In January 2015, my last few years at Notre Dame were going to be defined by one day, as
April Feng | Thursday, October 8, 2015
“Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.” — Anonymous. When I first came to America two years ago, there were a couple of things about this culture I did not understand, chief among them football. After my “pitiful absence” from the