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Don’t Be A Student, Part I: Your Time Is Valuable

To the college students out there: How many hours do you work per week? What baskets do your work fall under? What is your target hourly wage per basket? What is your real hourly wage? If you can’t answer these questions, then I have a follow-up: How many unpaid internships have you taken since graduating [...]

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DIS vs. Georgetown Round #1: Administration

An analysis of the (non-academic) value offered by Georgetown University, versus the value offered by my study abroad program in Denmark.

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Infographic: Employee Distribution at GU

Infographic: Employee Distribution at GU

I created a scaled graph of the staff sizes of various Georgetown departments. The results are disturbing.

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TEDxYSE

I attended TEDxYSE today, and I’m finding it hard not to criticize the event, for both its content and its implementation. Overall, I wouldn’t call it a waste of time, but I think it lacked a unifying, examined vision for what it wanted to convey. I expected to hear about design and technological solutions to big problems, but instead I feel like I got hit with more of the same.

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MSB Entrepreneurship Vision Competition

Last semester, the MSB hosted its Entrepreneurship Vision Competition with the goal of prompting students to propose changes within the MSB that would serve to encourage entrepreneurship. Participants pitched their ideas in front of a panel of MSB professors and were evaluated based on feasibility, affordability, uniqueness, learning, and impact. Overall, the MSB lacks any [...]

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