Throughout my childhood, I often heard about my parents complaining about how crappy the education in America is. As the victim of numerous teachers who sucked at their jobs, I falsely believed that suffering was a necessary part of schooling. This suffering included useless classes, boring and repetitious homework, and teachers who spent [...]
Just a few days ago, something hit me: without my amazing mentors, I wouldn’t be here right now, and you wouldn’t be reading what little I have to say.
Rarely do I promote another website, but my friend Allie recently set up a neat web page that connects students with mentors in similar [...]
Working on a side project / startup is so much fun, but to state nothing more than the obvious: It takes over your life!!! If I’m not working on a startup, I feel like an idiot for wasting precious time. When I’m actually working on a startup, I feel like an idiot [...]
Last night, I learned the amazing and the obvious. I’m good at a lot of things, but I haven’t exactly *mastered* anything. I know few people who have, because it’s incredibly difficult to do so. Leading a busy life doesn’t exactly help this. One of my entrepreneur friends suggested that the [...]
Since childhood, I’ve associated computer science with geeky and socially inept little boys, and for rational reason: because all of the computer geeks I knew were in fact geeky and socially inept little boys! But as I mentioned in my previous post about computer camp, I’ve wanted to go into tech from an [...]
Most of you have only met the superficial version of me. I’ve been thinking a lot about my personal brand in the recent weeks, and I’ve come to a few major decisions as to how I want people to perceive me. Through my blog, I have complete discrepancy as to how and what [...]
I’m often asked if I plan on dropping out to start a company. Plenty of people see school as being absolutely useless, but the older people I speak to (30+) tell me to stick in school, party my butt off, study abroad, and have a good time. In the past year alone, I’ve [...]
Who knew that our world’s youth would become so internet obsessed to a point where there’d be rehabilitation camps for these nerds?
Simply put, we’re becoming so reliant on our computers for everything. Our communication, our finances, our news, our homework, our research, our fun, etc… it just never stops. If you [...]
Everybody talks shit about boarding schools. The movies make it seem like such a terrible thing. When kids do drugs, when they get poor grades in school, they get sent away to boarding school. Bummer.
I bought into this crap and could have spent my first few years of high school at a [...]
I started thinking about my motivation for running a startup. Actually, I lied. My mom made me think about it. She thinks that I’m doing what I’m doing not for money, but rather the status and reputation for being a young entrepreneur. This goes back to me being an attention whore.
If [...]