I gently poked my half-asleep sister, wondering how she could want to miss such a story. It was a precious chronicle that my mom had decided to tell that night, about her youth in the small village of Francistown. She paused and stared at the fire, and I follow suited and noticed the dying fire. I was momentarily distracted. I realized it was the perfect time to pull the prank I had planned since the trip began, so I volunteered...

A letter to my future roommate Eita! This is how I will probably say Hi to you on the first day. It is the more relaxed version of saying Dumelang: the Setswana formal greeting. I am not really into linguistics but I have an interest in learning just the greeting phrases of as many languages as I can. What I am really interested into is debate, well in a language I fully understand, so you better be ready for some...

Being a student, from Sub-Saharan Africa, the world's poorest region, my vision is that of an economically thriving Sub-Saharan Africa. As an economics graduate from Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, I foresee a future in which I would use my knowledge to help solve the economical debacle that overshadows the lives of my people. For me, I envisage a future as an economic advisor to the Southern African Development Committee, helping to eradicate abject poverty. During my time at...

My teacher was a die-hard Keynesian, so you could imagine the amount of conviction I needed each time I took my stance. To sweeten her up, I always opened my presentations by saying “Economics is quite complicated, and I do acknowledge the Keynesians efforts in explaining some concepts in a well satisfactory manner, but, monetarists just make the subject sophisticated.” She would chuckle and in that moment I would hit the nail to the coffin, “and excess money supply is...

1.A letter to my future roommate Eita! This is how I will probably say Hi to you on the first day. It is the more relaxed version of saying Dumelang: the Setswana formal greeting. I am not really into linguistics but I have an interest in learning just the greeting phrases of as many languages as I can. What I am really interested into is debate, well in a language I fully understand, so you better be ready for some...

Be yourself...