by Farah Mithani – Houston Baptist University What to be and what not to be.  I thought everything would just fall into place after graduation.  I’ve been stuck in a swirling vortex of confusion.  Who knew reality would be this hard? I should have listened to my parents when they warned me...

by Priya Patel – University of Florida I’m mere weeks away from a bona fide college degree. In the past four years, I have gone through two laptops, three majors, and developed a semi-serious and expensive addiction to caffeine to get to this point (damn you, Starbucks!). I have spent countless...

by Aditi Mehta Recently, BG had the privilege of interviewing Shivani Thakkar, a talented artist in the field of dance and artistic performance. Many can say they have a passion for dance, but Thakkar has taken that passion and turned it into a full fledged career. Thakkar was born and raised in Calgary,...

by Foram Mehta The clock reads 2 a.m. on a school night and junior Seema Patel* is just now getting ready for bed. The late night is not anything out of ordinary for her. It is just another night in the life of a pre-med. A psychology major at the University of Texas at Austin, Patel says she averages...

by Foram Mehta I still remember the days when you counted the years until you moved into the next block of school. As an 11-year-old, you couldn’t wait to leave behind elementary school and being surrounded by tag-playing, nose-picking, nap-taking “children” for the mature middle-school...

by Sneha Goud In the latest hit Hindi movie, 3 Idiots, main character Rancho (played by hottie Aamir Khan) encourages his two friends to let go of stress in their prestigious engineering college and pursue their dreams free from obligations. I saw the movie with my parents.  On the ride home, I told...

by Ismath Mohideen The world’s most recognizable and respected companies all have something in common: they have all built strong, powerful, competitive brands.  Their brands could be represented by their products, services, or even the people working for them.  Take your neighborhood Starbucks for...

by Sunita Dharani photographs by Thuy Ly The bonds of family-especially a South Asian family-are as tightly woven as the beads on the fabric of a designer sari. It comes as no surprise that our immediate and extended family members are bound to contribute (perhaps interfere is a better term) in every...

by Ismath Mohideen This summer is the perfect time to practice what you’ve learned in school into a real-world working experience, especially if you’re close to graduation.  An internship helps develop professional skills, while making sense of all those classes and exams which certainly...

Ismath at her graduation. by Ismath Mohideen Ladies, ever get that nagging feeling that your career has no direction? Like that college degree isn’t valuable in the real world? That you foresee religiously searching Monster.com for something that pays when you graduate, while simultaneously trying...