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Written by: Elise Ghitman From the time you get up to the time you go to bed, you are hard at work. There’s no free-loading. You are constantly doing the work of being alive, whether you sign on [...]

Walking over the Williamsburg bridge I stare down the city and feel triumphant. The pink paint peels in uneven patterns along her mammoth structure. A year into living here, and the paint [...]

It feels like just yesterday I moved my tassel to the right and thought, “Now What?”. To call graduation the most anticlimactic moment of my life would be a bold understatement. But for a time [...]

2016 was predicted to be The Year of Transition. I knew in advance that I would be graduating in May, moving to New York for a three month period to complete a summer course at NYU, and [...]

How can we predict the future when there is so much luck that determines the outcome of our lives? When I reflect on the six months of my life that have unfolded since I walked across the stage [...]

I graduated a prestigious women’s college in Northampton in May before moving to New York, New York for six weeks to complete a publishing program at NYU. When I the program ended mid-July I [...]

I take the train from New Haven to Grande Central Station, for what I hope will be the last time I have to make the four-hour commute for a New York City interview. I plug my earphones against my [...]

Transitioning from one job to another is never an easy time in a person’s life. That is certainly true for students like myself who change jobs in high school or college. Recently, I left my job [...]

Do you deal with aggressive, intimidating, or controlling people at work or in your personal life? On the surface, these individuals can come across as domineering, confrontational, demanding, [...]

Leslie T. Chang The voices of China’s workers TEDGlobal, Filmed Jun 2012 Return to the talk Transcribed by Joseph Geni Reviewed by Morton Bast Hi. So I’d like to talk a little bit [...]