I remember about a year ago when I was on Spring Break, I joined a Socratic session online. In response to a question, I proudly pronounced myself as a nihilist and a narcissist. I was truly ignorant to what those two ideas meant, so I forgive my younger self for using them incorrectly, even though ...
Philosophy is truly an academic discipline. To devote yourself to a life of thinking, connecting the dots, and offering a conclusion just to have your premise beaten up and then do it all over again is arguably destructive. For those who can't stand to be torn down, philosophy may be a hard area of humanities ...
When I was about halfway through high school, I started to question what I wanted to do with my life. It wasn't that I felt what I had been doing up until that moment was meaningless, but it was that I recognized that it would become meaningless if I didn't find a passion that did ...
I'm going to assume that everyone reading this has been to school or is currently in school. Right now, you're either incredibly excited for Christmas coming up around the corner, or you're incredibly excited for the end of term. I tend to fall in the latter of those categories. Christmas is fantastic and every day ...
Most students will experience their first job interview between the ages of 14 and 16. They will show up in an ill-fitting but passable professional outfit and hand over a disappointing resume consisting of their GPA, community service credit hours, and honor roll mentions. Their mother will be so proud, and she should be. A ...
Professional development is a concept that used to seem foreign to me. I assumed that I would be participating in seminars, lectures, presentations, etc. of the sort when I was a professional in the career I chose. This past year has opened my eyes to many things, but perhaps one of the most important ideas ...
There are people in this world who are so passionately in love with what they do that they begin to hate it. It's not an uncommon or unreasonable fate that artists of any sort often fall into. Think about it - you find your passion, work at it every day, see very few early results, ...
