Attended a talk about “Global Edupreneurs” by the Harriet Business Group today, fully expecting to hear about ideas about education- and instead found myself being sold a ~$4,999 training to become a salesperson to push the company’s education products to “foreign students”. I got to see the private sector and the government from different perspective [...]
Cambridge is as different from Stanford (or the US system of education) as I can possibly imagine. Where Stanford allocates rooms based on a lottery system, Cambridge’s policy of pricing rooms differently results in the well off people living in nicer rooms. Where Stanford programs always ended off with the reminder that anybody could “approach [...]
Source: The Independent, UK
I lived for a few days in Cambridge University, visiting many of the Singaporeans there. One of the world’s oldest universities, its halls were once graced by greats such as Newton, Marlowe and so many other legends. It is a charming town full of tradition with little shophouses and narrow, winding streets; [...]
My time here has exposed me to so many different fields of knowledge that I am increasingly confused about what I want to major in. On one hand I like economics a lot, on the other hand engineering attracts me because it gives me skills to create things. Anthropology and Sociology fascinate me, while creative [...]
I am Daniel Isaiah Ong, an undergrad at Stanford studying Engineering and Political Science. I also work at locra.org.
I write mostly about social entrepreneurship, technology, design, and Singapore, the land where I come from.
