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A senior volleyball player at Howard University was supposed to play in her final conference tournament, but when she learned that another person needed her to save her life, she willingly missed out on what could have been the ultimate game of her college volleyball career. When she was a sophomore in college, Jurnee Farrell
At the tender age of nine, this boy is set to graduate with a degree in electrical engineering after completing the program in a space of nine months. Laurent Simons, the half-Dutch half-Belgian child prodigy from Amsterdam, is studying electrical engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE). It’s considered one of the toughest courses,
Taking that first step to losing weight is always the hardest thing to do. But this college student took it even further – he took up running lose weight, lost 184-lbs, and went on to complete the Chicago Marathon! Ethan Taylor has always been big, and it was an advantage in his younger years as
Crystal Wang was just 3 years old when she was photographed in the arms of a Harvard University police officer. 15 years later, she never thought that she will be able to recreate the prophetic photo in the same place and with the same person. Parents love taking photos of their children, especially during their
A professor at Georgia Gwinnett College in Lawrenceville recently went viral for the most beautiful reason. It’s one of the calls that most busy parents dread to receive – a call from their babysitter calling in sick. While there are people who are lucky enough to have friends and nearby family members who could watch
A new study from Oregon State University suggests that cats form a special bond with their human caregivers and think of them as a parent. Some people believe that cats are not as sociable with humans as dogs are. This is because cats love exploring outdoors and they seem to have their own world. However,
Victories taste sweeter when shared with friends, family, and special people in our life. After all, they were the ones who inspired us to reach for our dreams. So it is only right to savor successful moments with them by our side. This must have been what’s on the mind of Parker, a student of
If you will ask someone about the role of motherhood, a lot of people would talk about her responsibilities to her child. What most people fail to realize is that a mother has tons of other responsibilities in her hands. Aside from nurturing her precious child, a mother has to take care of herself, her
Who would have thought that one of the world’s favorite sweet food can actually soothe cough? Most people reach out for lemon or cough syrup to cure the symptoms, while in fact you can simply indulge in a bar of chocolate. It sounds too good to be true, but this is the most recent findings.
The King of Pop Michael Jackson released one of his award-winning song Thriller on the year 1982. But more than three decades later, the upbeat and electrifying music of Michael Jackson rocked the grounds of the Collegiate Challenge in the Convention Center of Anaheim, California. The audience and performers present on the convention center cheered their
Being a student is not the easiest role in the world. There are deadlines to meet, projects to submit, papers to write, reports and recitations to pass. It’s also even more challenging for those who are running for honors and who are doing an extra to job to make their way to the top. There
Good deeds happen in every part of the world, and living in the digital age allowed most of us to be a witness to to some of these in just a few clicks. Most of the stories that we see online have a common theme– they happen during the most random times of the day.