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Why Our Education System is a Waste of Time and Money

The mysteries about education that no one has questioned before...

The Dark Side of America's Elite Universities

The unspoken reality behind elite colleges in the U.S. that only a few knows...

On Happiness

From broken, lost, and depressed up to fulfilled, purposeful, and happier.

Let's talk about the education system, Part 1

Walk for 5 miles just to get to school, 70 - 80 students per classroom, a single blackboard, fewer desks than students, a lack of textbooks, a shortage of well-trained teachers, no computers... What we have seen so far is a lack of education supply in countries like India, Indonesia,

what 'death' has taught me about life, Part i

"I'm scared that I am going to die one day..." Death is something that most of us try very hard to not think about. It seems unpleasant, so we put it out of our mind and hardly stop visually thinking about our death even when it could be staring directly

6 Years Journey at Wycombe Abbey is Coming to an End...

A lot has changed since I entered this school six years ago.

My Favourite Book on Relationship – Essays In Love

This book should be read by anyone who has ever fallen in love.

What It Feels Like To Be Rejected From EVERY College.

The unexpected.

The Best Teen Romance Book I've Ever Read

I finished the book a few days ago (for the second time), and it moved me like nothing ever has before (haven't got the chance to see the show yet). I still think about it very often; a part of the reason is that I can totally relate to this

Rejections from Yale, MIT, and beyond...

* Putting things in perspective My journey has really been different from other people's stories on the internet. Today, I've just got rejected by 9 institutions I applied for (some UCs, all liberal arts colleges, and a few other universities). Motivational speech on the internet tells us to learn to be

Socializing American Healthcare

"The entitled rich kid who keeps failing in class" America is a country with enormous wealth, military power, and cultural influence. But at the same time, it's no surprise that there are some big-time issues this nation does wrong. From the Social Progress Index rankings [https://www.socialprogress.org/index/

Reflection – To My 18-Years-Old Self

'What Do I Know' At the age of 18, I had not done something incredible that I can teach others about: I haven't earned millions from investing in a successful start-up company, I haven't cured a disease accidentally while doing an internship in a lab, and I don't have a

Why Affirmative Action is Wrong

The Diversity Dilemma * What is Affirmative Action Over the last 50 years, Affirmative Action has been a fierce debate. The policy began in 1961 as a government initiative to offer opportunities to historically excluded groups, allowing preferential treatment based on race to cobble back equity. Since diversity has counted as

Why I Became a Pessimist?

What is Pessimism? > "Philosophy was a discipline to keep you sane in troubled times. And the best way to be sane was precisely to master pessimism; to make yourself at home in pessimism; to become a master of this strange and perhaps depressing seeming philosophy." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca [https:

Why I HATE Meritocracy

Where It All Begins... We live in a very materialistic time. It's a global phenomenon that we are surrounded by snobs and greedy people: in school, we very often get asked, "Which school are you going to?" In a job market, we get asked, "what job do you do?" In

My New Life Goals for 2022

1. Worry less about my life. In 2021, my greatest fears had been: * "I won't be successful if I don't try harder. And even if I succeed, either it won't be enough, or I will have to sacrifice a lot to get there, I can't afford the losses..." * "How would

I WAS WRONG about Liberal Arts Colleges...

I applied for three liberal arts colleges: Williams, Amherst, and Pomona. There are, of course, much more top ones I could go for: Swarthmore, Wellesley, Bowdoin, Claremont McKenna (if I get into Pomona, I could cross-subsidize and take their courses, so I didn't bother), but I just wasn't a fan

How I Prepared for my Princeton Alumni Interview

I had my Princeton interview a few days ago, and here's what I learned from this experience so far. What would an interview be like First of all, always say yes if you get invited to an interview. The interview usually lasts for an hour or under an hour, around

I Applied to 27 Universities... Here's what I Learned.

* Universities that I applied UK: Oxford (rejected) KCL (pending) Warwick (accepted | conditional offer A*AA) York (accepted | conditional offer AAA) Southampton (accepted | conditional offer AAB) Felt quite pity when Oxford sent me that rejection letter... To be honest, I was kind of expecting it. Didn't get the chance to do

10 Life Lessons I Learned in my High School Senior Year

1. There are always people who try to slow you down I believe I am not the first one mentioning this; it just can't be truer. Mark Zuckerberg said in his Commencement Speech at Harvard 2017 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmYv8XGl-YU&t=1478s]: > "It's good to be idealistic.