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I'm not denying that there are some benefits, especially in South East Asia where the Western occupation from the Vietnam War era for example has left such a heavy footprint that knowing English would help, but the vast majority of the time it's simple a case of someone getting an extra talking...

A lot of the time voluntourists become more of a burden than help to the locals who now have to correct the work of or make up with their time the damage/slopiness of unqualified teenagers. This article for example explains just one of the ways unqualified, particularly high school students...

because you are not making any difference except to your CV

yeah i didn't quite understand why this move was so well received because tbh it was quite slow and the only reaction you could possibly have is "wtf" Lucy was also fucking terrible so imo it's been a shit movie year from Johanson

please do actual volunteering and not voluntourism where you go overseas and teach some poor people english in a country that doesn't speak fucking english or something completely fake like that Yeah I was going to point one that they clash but I wasn't sure which ones did :haha: And I think...

I will also be trying this (mostly the PwC one because that's the only Big 4 accounting firm I'd like to work at

This one was quite interesting about good leadership:

Thank you :) Really enjoyed Love in the Time of Cholera - Marquez just has the most poetic writing and fantastical storytelling ability. Didn't really get into Of Mice and Men. I only finished it because it was a short read :haha:. I'm told I should read The Old Man and the Sea though...

This one is pretty good generally (UNSW alumnus): But I'm more into using fear as motivation:

Re: My NYR for 2014 - 2014 New Years Resolutions & Progress 1. Did not happen lel. 2. Ditto. 3. Ditto. 4. I think I did well here. 5. Definitely achieved. 6. Achieved. 7. Nope. 8. Did achieve. 9. Sort of achieved. 10. Did achieve (Love in the Time of Cholera and Of Mice and Men). 11...

They're just picking the mid point of the range given and rounding to the nearest tenth. There is also every chance that undergraduates return for post-graduate study and so would be counted in both statistics, but it leads me to believe that the 2 don't need to add up to 100% because they are...

the full image + I added UTS for ease of travel to the city

This a talk I think a lot of people on BoS should watch because you guys need the messages that come from this. The speaker is the Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School (and she's a very well respected social...

Stephen Hawking is such a smart ass when it comes down to it :haha:

I'm assuming a lot of you already watch the occasional TED talk here and there, and if you don't then enjoy your time in this thread because there are some incredibly awe-inspiring and informative talks on the TED database. I've watched quite a number of them, but I'll start with the most...

Girlfriend is flying AirAsia from Thailand to Australia on New Years - this frightened the feel out of me. Really hoping for a good outcome to this.

http://m.smh.com.au/national/education/study-gifted-children-benefit-from-bypassing-school-for-university-20141227-12cnf0.html?&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=social&eid=socialn%3Afac-14omn0583-optim-nnn%3Apaid-25%2F06%2F2014-social_traffic-all-postprom-nnn-ebaby-o Discuss...

Sorry, I couldn't tell. In fairness he was mumbling his lines...

The Maze Runner Genre: Dystopian/Sci-Fi/Teen-Fiction Comments: Not a particularly interesting or sensical end of the world story - I wasn't sold on it by much. The movie plays out okay though, so it wasn't a total waste of time and the scripting wasn't too bad. Verdict: 6.5/10. Poster:

Snowpiercer Genre: Dystopian/Sci-F Comments: Pretty interesting and unique plot, quite enjoyed the backstory, didn't help that the 2nd main character spoke only Korean and the "translator" machine was too terrible to make out what he was saying though. Verdict: 7.5/10, not screaming about it but...