There is Always Room for Improvement
byBy Alanoud AlMadhi (@ALANOUD_auh) Imagine yourself being given the task of, say, cleaning up a room. As you do so very diligently and thoroughly,…
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Facing the Fear of Failure in Writing
byBy Alanoud AlMadhi (@ALANOUD_auh) An English professor at our university invited us to a book-signing event for an Arab author who wrote a number of…
Healthy Criticism
byBy Fatma Bujsaim (@FatmaBujsaim) Growing up, we have been taught that it is rude to criticize people. That it is not polite and that we…
Female University Students’ Thoughts on Marriage
byBy Fatma Bujsaim (@FatmaBujsaim) My column turns one year-old this month and since it focuses on undergrad issues, I thought long and hard of the…
Is the Educational System Suppressing Creativity?
byBy Reem Abdalla (@Reem096) For those of us fortunate enough to go to school, we were taught since pre-school how to do things in a…
The Lie Of Not Lying
byBy Fatma Bujsaim (@FatmaBujsaim) Hash-tags are on the list of what I enjoy on twitter; random ones come out every day and people write the…
Taking a Break
byBy Fatma Bujsaim (@FatmaBujsaim) Spring, winter, Eid and summer break, are all holidays that most of us look forward to throughout the year. However, summer…
What Would You Like To Be When You Grow Up?
byBy Khalid AlAmeri(@KhalidAlAmeri) What do you want to be when you grow up? A classic question that opens the gates of dreams, ambitions and curiosity…
Embracing Change
byBy Fatma Bujsaim (@FatmaBujsaim) I have recently noticed that people in general tend to stick with what they are used to and would avoid change…
The Importance of Managing Your Time
byBy Fatma Bujsaim (@FatmaBujsaim) Every now and then, we find ourselves sitting on the floor in a pile of papers, documents and books, while our…
Understanding The Power of Dialogue
byBy Fatma Bujsaim (@FatmaBujsaim) Remember the time when we were kids and used to cry over everything? We may not remember, after all, we were…
Turning Education Into Knowledge
byBy Fatma Bujsaim (@Fatma_Bujsaim) At some point in life, we have been programmed to believe/understand that everything we need to learn and know is either…
University Stress = Mind Block
byBy Fatma Bujsaim (@Fatma_Bujsaim) In the past articles from “Just Another Undergrad” column, the light was shed on how high school and university lives are…
Categorizing Friends
byBy Fatma Bujsaim (@Fatma_Bujsaim) On the one hand, life was simpler in school, friendships were put into simple categories that were labeled as either black…
Being Late for Class is Being Late for Life
byBy Fatma Bujsaim (@Fatma_Bujsaim) Remember those days when we were late to class in high school because we just felt like being late; no responsibility,…
Finding Myself on Campus
byBy Fatma Bujsaim (@Fatma_Bujsaim) For fourteen years, we have lived with no worries over what to wear to school; the uniform was our savior. If…