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If Math were a person, I would stab it, and risk pissing off MIT students. You see, I was never any good at math. I always disliked it. Unfortunately for me and millions of others we have to learn math in order to advance in schools. And so, this year I have to give the dreaded SAT (A test which is required by colleges in U.S and is taken in High School) and it has a lot of Math.

In order to understand Math better, I embarked on a journey to find a nice class, online. I began my ...

The vast majority of people tend to believe that somehow, some people were born with a magical gift regarded as “Talent”
Examples have been scattered throughout history: Mozart, Tiger Woods, Warren Buffet, Winston Churchill, Bill Gates, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein and hundreds of others. When you hear these names, the first thing that probably comes across your mind is they are "great and special, they were born with it." Somehow they are better and exceed in their fields for some ...

We all know that Pakistan has her share of problems. But one problem (Yes, I will call it a problem) sparks my interest the most. I am not sure if you have also noticed it…it is really common. It’s a problem which relates to education in our country. I noticed when I was a child, everyone used to say to someone a lot older than me “No…do a degree in medicine” or “become a doctor” and guess what: almost everyone was doing a degree in medical. A few years pass and what is the hot new degree? Information ...

It was a completely normal morning, except for one thing. There was apple Jam on my bread rather than butter. I did what I usually did on a Saturday. But this Saturday was not usual. In the evening my cousin informed me that there was an unusual car in the parking area, across our flat and when someone went to close to the car, to see who it belonged to or for whatever purpose, a dead man was found in the car, on the driver’s seat. I have no idea when this man went to the car and revealed what he ...

We never had an intercom system in our flat in Pakistan, instead we looked from a window to see who was ringing the bell, if we recognized the person, we would press a button on a wall right next to the window, and that would open the door. We lived on the second floor of the building, and right across our building there was a huge Neem tree which my dad planted over 25 years ago. The main occupants of living nature of the tree were crows, crows dominated that tree and did not let the birds or other ...