Feb
05
For the past 2.5 days, 4 of my classmates and I came together as the “Miracle Workers” to compete at the internal round for the Venture Capital Investment Competition. Unlike the usual business case competition, this competition gives MBAs an opportunity to act as a venture capital firm and select a real start-up company to …
Feb
02
These posts by my friends Jo and Jackie, got me thinking about our obsession with the idea of perfection. Dictionaries define perfection as a state of completeness and flawlessness. What if perfection could be a state of being complete with flaws? What if we considered that because it has flaws, it is perfect. The perfect …
Jan
30
corker #3: Wesley George! Wes is a seeker of truths. After becoming friends in Vancouver, he went off to complete his degree in mathematics in Ontario and has since moved to New York to help a professor with some of her projects as he completes his PhD in cryptography. He looks for what is true …
Jan
29
With my travel essentials in tow (a rad playlist, my mat, and my new favourite body refresher), I spent the last three days of my reading deprivation week in Basel, Switzerland with the European Yogi Nomads. 8 hours of yoga was the perfect remedy for the aches and pains of not being able to read …
Jan
29
I was in line at Capers on 4th, and somehow got a flash of inspiration and decided to buy the person behind me in line their meal. It was an elderly man, and he was eating a very light serving of dinner. He said that was the nicest thing someone did for him lately, and …
Jan
26
Day 1 was filled with temptation. The textbooks, the incoming letters from friends I haven’t heard from in years, the blog posts … all tempting to read. I did not give in. Day 2, yesterday, was a day of distraction. Was there an episode of Community that I could kill some time with? What about …
Jan
22
Sometimes I get really nervous. This usually happens right before I hit the stage, the morning before a marathon, or right before I press send to that e-mail I knew needed to be written yet have no idea where or how it will be received. I am then reminded that nerves are the best thing …
Jan
19
I love getting sweaty. There is something about the sweat dripping of my face, the mind raging with endorphins, and the lactic acid burning in my body that reminds me “I don’t feel this way by sitting on the couch!” Sweat is earned. After a sweatfest in Vancouver over the holidays, I became aware that …
Jan
16
On Saturday night, I took to the online airwaves to present two workshops on “Getting Out Of Your Own Way” for the UBC Student Leadership Conference with the best co-presenter I could have asked for, Krystal Gabriel. She was live and alive in Vancouver, while I was connecting in from Copenhagen via Skype. I loved …
Jan
14
Develop: de-vel-op, verb. to bring into being or activity; generate; evolve to bring out the capabilities or possibilities of; bring to a more advanced or effective state to make active or promote the growth of to increase value or change the use of The verb develop has the Latin prefix “de” meaning “away” or “off,” …