So, I raced down the hallway. I raced I ran into my classroom and I jumped. I I literally jumped up on the desk. I mean, for real, I jumped up there and went, "This is going to be a great day. " And then I said our mantra for the year is character. The ability to persist against constant opposition. The ability to choose to choose courage over comfort. To do the right thing instead of the easy thing. I said character is believing that life is happening not to us but for us. And then all of a sudden it happe ...

Hello everyone. I'm excited to be here and share my perspective with you. Uh understand our limits and maybe break the limits.So I'll start with my own story. The wind was sharp, the air thin, and each breath felt borrowed. At over 4,000 meters on Mount Tubul, the highest peak in North Africa, your world narrows to one simple question.Why are you here. My legs achd. My lungs burned.Every cell, every cell in my body screamed, "Stop. Just stop." And yet somewhere between the snow and the sky, another voice th ...

Weiri strive, persist, insist, become. Okay, we even manifest it in red dripping colors. Scary, isn't it.But my insistence today is that quiri does not have to end in the negative. It must be a positive ending. Easily the earliest recorded incidents of quicher might be when Jacob was going back.I hope all of you know the story of Jacob with his two wives and he had to pass through where his brother Esau was holding forth. He sent his wives across the river Jabok. You can verify it.Genesis 32:22-32. And he w ...

Every year at least two or three of my students come back to me in the month of May with their long faces their IIA projects that they've put months into thinking about and working just didn't work. One of them tried testing the antibacterial effects of garlic oil on E. coli.The bacteria refused to cooperate and another one wanted to test the effect of music on the growth of plants. Unfortunately, the plants seemed unimpressed. And at that point of time, the student is usually panicked.Ma'am, what do I do. ...

Good morning everyone. If someone had told me fresh out of my masters in pharmaceutical sciences that one day I would be standing under the stage lights not in a lap coat but in costume. I would have laughed.But life as it turns out to be has a flare for drama and I leaned into it. I started my career in the world of molecules and formulations. It was safe, secure, and logical.But deep down inside me, there was a quiet yearning, a whisper that spoke to me of characters, stories, and emotions. I didn't know ...

Welcome to the game of life where the prize is your dream and the twist you don't always first try. Hi, I'm Euan, an electrical engineering student. And if rejection were a contestant scorecard, well, I'd be a finalist.I have been told no, not yet, sorry, but more times that I can count. But what I learned is rejection is feedback from the world, but often from ourselves. One of the most painful rejection I've ever got was from something I really, really wanted.A scholarship I had prayed for, worked for, an ...

[Music] Life can change in an instant. For anyone who's been to Wildadi, you'll definitely know the JRA Sierra ride. You climb up a giant tower, step into a narrow tube, and in an instant, the ground disappears beneath your feet.You plummet over a 100 ft almost vertically, landing in a shallow pool, dazed as though you've just been spun in a washing machine. That was me. On an ordinary Friday night three years ago, I was casually lounging on my couch, my husband snoring not so gently beside me.I began to sc ...

How do we care for the land. Really care for the land [snorts] as a way to prepare for the extremes such as fires, droughts, and more. In 2018, my family and I moved to Altadena into a home nestled at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains.After learning what it meant to live in a high fire risk zone, I began to imagine what would it look like if fire were to come towards us from those mountains. What kind of landscape might prevent the loss of our home. So, we began to landscape by harvesting water.We built ...

2012 كملت الدراسه في اختصاص يعني حبيته في وقتها هندسه المساحه في كركوك هذا الاختصاص يعني فادني والهمني بكثير تفاصيل خلاني اكون دقيق في بعض التفاصيل المحطات الليتها وتخرجت حالي حالي كثير من الشباب كثير من الطموحات كثير من الامال كثير من الخطط اللي نخليها نتخرج خطه تعيين خطه وظيفه خطه حياه وكلنا كان عندنا تفكير حتى يكون في بعض الاحيان مادي ايش قدش راح نقدر نطور نفسنا بهذا الجانب بديت اول محطه بحياتي اشتغل بمجال الشركات كمهندس مساحه باختصاصي داخل وخارج الموصل مع كثير من الطموحات والاحلام اللي كنت محملها عندي ب ...

[Music] [Applause] Sorry about that. I'm giving you guys a talk today about falling on purpose. As you can see, this reminds me of when I was three years old.I was running around the coffee table and my grandmother said, "Boy, if you don't stop running, you're going to bust your head." Well, I didn't stop running and I busted my head. And uh but it wasn't bad. It was just a couple stitches.But I learned that it didn't hurt. I don't even remember it. They just told me stories about it.But on this particular ...