If you’ve ever sat in on a round of IT job interviews, you start to notice a pattern. Candidates rattle off buzzwords from their résumés, list the names of programming languages like ingredients, and wait for questions to test memory, not skill. Then someone walks in who breaks the rhythm. They don’t speak in jargon. ...
Not all wounds are loud. Some don’t come with tears or blowups. They arrive mid-glance or in the half-beat after a sentence. And in schools, they’re everywhere—small, forgettable moments that don’t seem like much until you see a student begin to withdraw. Confidence doesn’t disappear all at once. It fades, usually in quiet places. As ...
Most of us don’t like to admit how much our emotions shape what we’re capable of. But the truth is, they do. We don’t work well when we’re heartbroken. We don’t concentrate well when we feel rejected. And we certainly don’t learn well when we’re nursing the fallout of a relationship that once felt like ...
Ask anyone to describe student life and they’ll probably mention things like deadlines, exams, parties, maybe a part-time job, or just the general chaos of trying to keep it all together. But beneath the surface of assignments and group projects, there’s a more personal journey taking place. One that rarely gets acknowledged. It’s the emotional ...
