Jesie Salcedo 10/30/20 Jesie Salcedo 10/30/20

Work-Life Balance: The Key to Productivity

As a student, plowing through assignments was my main mentality. Using sticky notes to track deadlines was my lifeline to good grades. During the height of a semester, I rarely gave myself a break, constantly cycling between school, extracurricular activities, work, eating and sleeping. Student life was a nonstop roller coaster ride, as I clung to my seat to cope with the turbulence.

Rianca Argenal 10/30/20 Rianca Argenal 10/30/20

Don’t Let “Rise and Grind” Be Your Default: My Experience and A Realization

Hustle. The Grind. Work hard, play later. There’s only so much time in a day. If you aren’t doing something right now, you’re lazy; get up and WORK.

Tasia Matthews 10/30/20 Tasia Matthews 10/30/20

On Imposter Syndrome

I have never realized myself as particularly competent. In grade school, I consistently achieved good grades and was placed into gifted education programs. But I wasn’t some sort of prodigy - I liked to read and had a photographic memory. This didn’t make me smart, it made me lucky. So I coasted through the UK and US public education systems on luck and on guilt that I didn’t work as hard as some of my classmates.