This was a comment from the exasperated parent of a school-going boy. He was already struggling having to learn 2 languages - English and Hindi, and multiple subjects like Language and Literature in b...
I am a double MBA from IIM Lucknow and ESCP-EAP Paris and then did another super MBA (Sloan Fellow) from MIT Sloan. And I am an Engineer from IIT Delhi.
That was then – when MBAs were the rage a...
The concept of self-knowledge has been prevalent in the old Eastern philosophy as an integral part of higher education.
Expertise in any domain at the highest levels was complete only w...
On Wednesday, March 13, 2019, UK Chancellor Philip Hammond said that from later this year, highly qualified roles will be exempt from any visa restrictions. This implies that Ph-D level roles will be ...
Ethics and trust in college applications
The US admissions scandal, in case you missed it, has unearthed the seedy underbelly of admissions in some of the world’s top, most desired, most elite ...
I am often confronted with the sight of my kid lying around doing nothing, and the desire to push him to do something, anything (except lying around), becomes the blinding thought.
Trained on a consta...
Most of my ‘successful’ mentees have worked extremely hard to get into colleges or career paths that they are currently at. While I have constantly talked about the value of persistence an...
Lot of students are under the impression that getting into a US program is easy. As opposed to rigorous selection-based pathways like Engineering at IITs, MBBS, or MBA/PGDM from II...
Credits to Shivangi Walia for this Blog.
‘A mentor empowers a person to see a possible future and believe it can be obtained.’ - Shawn Hitchcock
It’s easier said than done, t...
