Archive | October, 2018

Word Nerd: 5 quick and easy tips for writing great emails

15 Oct

There are no rules to winning at life, but here are 5 rules to winning at emails. Do you groan at the thought of reading a long, boring email? If your answer is yes, you’re just like us. No one likes to go through a sloppy email without a beginning, a middle, or an end. […]

Changemakers: Taking an idea and making it real with Kick It!

12 Oct

Kick It

By Ananya Goel and Aaddya Dubey “Come on, Babita, forward, forward, pass it to Sita, she’s open! Good job! Sita, go left, go left, pass it back to Babita… Yesssss, Gooooal!!!” Photo courtesy: Kick It! Not only did Babita score her 3rd goal of the match, with 3 minutes remaining, but it was definitely the […]

Here’s a story about how the internet proved to be a fantastic opportunity for an international student

10 Oct

Internet

I am actually very pleased to have had an opportunity to study in the Oregon State University. It wasn’t something planned. I wanted to do something in the space I was interested in, and [the] opportunity to go to graduate school at Oregon State [came up]. So, I went there. This was mid-1980s. The internet […]

7 posh French phrases that are now popular in English

8 Oct

Author: Pratibha Alagh What if we told you English belongs to same language family as Dutch – Germanic, but that it has more features in common with French, an offspring of the Romance languages? Strange, right? But, when it comes to languages, it’s not all about the roots. What is at play is another very […]