This summer I’m transitioning into the site director role at BUILD after three years of proudly serving as the incubator manager. Yes, I’ve known for a while, and we have been making announcements here and there in the BUILD community (during our after-school incubator sessions and a big announcement during the Business Plan Competition back […]
Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
By Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
I loved the themes of facing insurmountable odds and overcoming even larger obstacles in this book. Greg Mortenson turned the huge failure of not climbing to the top of K2 into a […]
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Again, I find myself reading another travel memoir, after reading Catfish and Mandala. This time I’m reading about “One woman’s search for everything across, Italy, India, and Indonesia,” after a difficult divorce and what seemed like a mid-life crisis in her 30’s.
What a beautifully written soul-bearer! Even though at times I wanted […]
by Andrew X. Pham
I joined a book club through the Asian Pacific Islander Wellness Center (www.apiwellness.org), and the latest book we read was Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam by Andrew X. Pham. It was essentially a travel memoir through Vietnam written by a Vietnamese refugee.
I thought […]
College enrollment rates are historically on the rise in the US. Stats from this fascinating book I’m currently reading, Microtrends by Mark J. Penn and Kinney Zalesne:
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, 69 percent of students who graudated from high school in 2005 were enrolled in college the following October. That was up […]
