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Be a cockroach, not a dinosaur “Steps to Success” A Writer’s Fortnight guest speaker, Chetan Bhagat made over 200 grade 9s in UWCSEA want to be a cockroach. Cockroaches have adapted to become successful and the way they adapt was… Continue Reading →

The last session for writer’s fortnight was a talk by a TWC2 volunteer. TWC2 is an organization to help migrant workers in Singapore by providing tools to solve their issues and fighting for better respect and consideration for the workers…. Continue Reading →

Deborah Emmanuel is a poet and a performer (slam poet) which I found it very unique and new. The fact that she performs her poem, I felt that the audience can understand her emotions by her pace and pitch and… Continue Reading →

Robyn Hayes, a researcher and a photographer, talked about the connection between photography and research and gave us incredible facts and statistics about child marriage that have blown me away in how critical this issue is. Even though her facts and… Continue Reading →

Our second session was Chetan Bhagat’s talk. I didn’t have high expectations for his talk because some people told me that he is not very loved in India because his writing is not like a book an adult writes.My friend… Continue Reading →

Our first writer’s fortnight session was Steve Dawson who is a Fox Star Sports commentator and biographer. In today’s talk, he explained the 5 ways to get the best answers in an interview and told us his tremendous stories about meeting… Continue Reading →