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I can video chat with my mum, who’s tucked far away from Happy Valley in the harbor town of Hyannis, Massachusetts. While I’m shopping, I can text my wife to see if we need yogurt. I can also call a faraway friend about an upcoming hiking trip as I make my way to the HUB…

Last year, when I wrote Risky By Design for Penn State’s Global Entrepreneurship Week, I was under the impression that, with my freelance design prowess, I’d soon be making enough money to live comfortably, pay off my student loans, and buy myself some nice things. Ha. This year I want to elaborate on how entrepreneurship played…

We have been repeatedly bombarded with the glorified message that entrepreneurship is a selective club of people working on ultrasecret projects, and that the people doing these are big risk takers. Through my experience with Play Physio and previous entrepreneurial projects, I’ve realized that the work that you do isn’t all that different from any…

Innovation is for the daydreamers. It’s for the forever-kids – the ones who always ask why and think rules are optional. They are the ones who start with nothing and come to build empires. A lot of times, they are the ones who cannot bring themselves to go to class or a 9-to-5 job because…

Someone once told me that in order to grow you need to be intellectually uncomfortable by exploring different subjects and points of view out of your comfort zone. Comfort is something everyone craves. We tend to remain set in our ways and avoid change, but it’s through discomfort that we learn and grow. During the…

Time and time again we are faced with the task of coming up with the next best thing. All around the world, we read headlines stating that these new products or services are life changing. When entering the world of entrepreneurship, however, I was faced with the fear that I would never be able to…

What are you majoring in? What do you want to do after college? Do these questions sound familiar? It’s like they have become the very first questions we ask one another in college at our first encounter. These questions, although important, are only surface-layer questions. They do not give us an opportunity to open up…

Time and time again, I am confronted with people who doubt my dreams, automatically deeming them unrealistic or impossible. But what’s the baseline for “unrealistic”? And how can anyone say anything is impossible when the impossible is currently being made possible every day? Those people who question your dreams don’t know what they are talking…

I often hear Penn State students talking about the pressure to achieve perfection in all they do. On the surface, that sounds like such a noble pursuit. But, in fact, such thinking often stifles the creativity and innovation so necessary for individuals and a society to grow and achieve progress. The lock-step track to education,…

Warning: This post will not make you feel warm and fuzzy inside. Last year, I was just discovering the realm of entrepreneurship. At the time, I was questioning whether I fit into the entrepreneur box. Rather than fitting inside the box, I am now more focused on redefining the contents of the box itself. I…