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"I’m setting up a micro-finance organization to help women in Malawi get interest free loans." "How old are you?" "Eighteen." I found her FB page: Tiwale I encourage you to scroll back through the last year of posts. This young woman has moved far past the realm of ideas.

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Batman agreed to be photographed. Under one condition.

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"You don’t need a church to talk to God. Just talk to God when you are walking down the street."

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I found these two walking arm-in-arm, ever-so-slowly, up a staircase in the subway station. When I asked for a photo, they posed just like this.

"Is this your mother or grandmother?" I asked.

"Oh no," he said. "I just met her on the train."

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"If you could give one piece of advice to a large group of people, what would it be?" "Take those phones you’re on, shove em’ up your arses, and go to work."

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Wanted to tell one more story from YMCA camp. As part of their camp experience, each camper chooses a goal that he/she wishes to accomplish before the end of the session. Each camper is then assigned a counselor to mentor them in pursuit of their goal. This is Malik from Brooklyn. Last summer, Malik’s goal was to stop bullying at camp. "How do you do that?" I asked. "Well, you can’t stop it completely," he said. "But if you see someone getting bullied, you can ask the bully to think about how he would feel if the same thing happened to him." The coolest part of the story happened after camp ended, when Malik returned home to Brooklyn. He ran for president of his 4th grade class on an anti-bullying platform, and won the election because “there were 15 other kids who got bullied who all voted for him.” After he was elected, he convened a meeting of all the class presidents, and passed a school-wide rule than anyone seen bullying would have to serve detention during both lunch and recess.

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It’s back! Canada’s Luckiest Student 2 is now live at http://luckie.st/CLS2TWO.

Do you know a Canadian student who could use $20,000 for school and a bunch of awesome prizes? Please share this!

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im crying

down

That heartbreak you experience when you come so close to something that you want so badly and you get excited for it and its just so close...and then it doesn't happen. It hurts so much more because you were so close.

I haven't been this upset in a really long time, and yea, I was really disappointed when I didn't get the one job that I had dreamed of, the one that I really wanted. It made it worse when I called the partner for some feedback, and he told me that he had loved talking to me, loved my personality, and would not even have hesitated to send me to clients. He told me to keep working at it because he "could see that I had a lot to offer". I was so close.

But at this point, what can I do? I guess all I can do is to just pick myself up, take this as a learning experience and work past this. Obviously, it'll be much harder than it sounds but...on to the next interview, the next opportunity.

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