Self-awareness is very important if you wish to develop because only when you know yourself truly, can you change. An important part of being self-aware is being aware of your own expenses because that is the best way of utilizing your money. 

Another semester and another midterm exam, I genuinely wonder why do these exams exist. Do they train me to solve the problems of the world or do these train me to take exams in the organization I am going to work in? If the whole purpose of these exams is to improve your knowledge then why don't we take exams every day?

A review of "Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II," likely the best 40k RTS we're ever going to get.

Being a grown up brings a lot of freedom. Everything depends on our choices and we are solely responsible for how we make our decisions between our given options. Though we are free to choose, with a great amount of freedom comes great responsibility as we need to decide what is good for us and what’s not.

Fortunate are the ones who are with their families and loved ones at this moment. My experience here has been a roller coaster with so many twists like in a thriller movie. I have been away from my home before during my undergraduate degree back in India. But in India, I could visit my home whenever I wanted, relish the tasty mom-cooked food every day. Since August 2019, I have been in Chicago and haven't visited my family so far, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and other circumstances.

India is a country of many interesting titles, but one of the aspects it boasts the most is that it a country of the youth, as 65% of the population is below the age of 35. Yet, it has been noticed that the voice of the youth is the most suppressed. Often hearing things such as, "You are not old enough to know better." or, " You are just saying that because you are going through a rebellious phase.", is something that has become the norm, as though the opinions of the younger generation are a topic of mockery. 

Do you ever feel you spent too much on protein bars and supplements? Here is an easy recipe to make your own healthy cookies under 20 minutes.

On Friday, February 26, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. CST, the Food Advisory Board held their monthly meeting. Present at the meeting were Student Government Association (SGA) Vice President of Student Life Jeannina Villalobos, Illinois Tech Dining Executive Chef Svenska Lindroth, and Resident District Manager Steven Goodwin.

This semester, the IIT-NECA (National Electrical Contractors Association) Student Chapter is taking on the 13th annual Electric/NECA Student Chapter competition all virtually due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic.

Thinking suspicious elderly guardianship as a distant matter, you may find a horrifying fact that it is a common social injustice happening across the U.S. There are hundreds of guardian scam U.S. courts cases filed, accounting for millions of dollars of assets shifted from the elderly to so-called legal guardians. “I Care a lot” on Netflix and Amazon Prime Video might be a good fictional reference for this cruel reality.

Everybody reads one book in his life that truly inspires him. The book named the magic of thinking big written by David Schwartz has achieved the same. This book has inspired me to think big and be optimistic and focused on my mindset to achieve any goal in my life. It is filled with ideas and methods that can be applied at home or work giving real-life examples of improving success, happiness, and satisfaction to those who implemented this.

If someone asks me what was the most important part of our human body, I would immediately answer it as the brain. Without a healthy mind, anyone could be easily directed to destruction in their lives. One might argue everyone has a healthy mind as they mature with age. It is not true, our minds get the least exercise once we cross the college phase in our lives. I don't blame us, but the nature of our commitments such as work, family, etc. keeps increasing over the years and we hardly find any time to read books. No matter how hard we work out in gyms, a dedicated frequent workout is a necessity for having a superior mind.

"Unfinished" is the latest book by Priyanka Chopra [Jonas], released on February 9, 2021. It is filled with funny anecdotes, sad stories, and new details about her career and life. The book describes the upbringing of the 38-year-old actress in India and abroad, and her rise to stardom. While Chopra has already spoken about the several accomplishments in her life, she becomes even more vocal and exposed in "Unfinished." In her book, she mentioned 11 of the most shocking moments of her life.

I am a huge fan of quotes and I'm not sure why. Even if I had to assume, they'd be condensed experiences that remind us but we're not the only ones to get through those feelings or circumstances. They are chunks of knowledge which have been extracted from many other past situations that can correlate with our own experiences or motivate us to step in those directions.

As the temperature plunged to arctic levels around Austin, the electricity demand for heat across the state was soaring. But soon the green dots on the Cineplex-sized screen started flipping to red. Each of these dots represented a regional power generator and they were shutting down. The frequency of 60 hertz is needed for stable electricity flow on the grid. Below 59 and the state’s electrical system would face cascading blackouts which would take weeks or even months to restore. Texas was seconds and minutes away from such a catastrophe.

Anthea Gonzalez is from Round Rock, Texas, a place that she, her younger sister, and two parents call home along with her dog, Mr. Roach, and her cat, Loosy. Motivated to study outside of Texas, she was enticed by the city of Chicago. Anthea loves computers, joyfully exclaiming, “I really like the way cyber forensics and security make me think. I just see it as solving a bunch of problems...I love how you can do so much from sitting down at a desktop”. She will be graduating in the next academic year with a B.S. in Information Technology and Management and a M.A.S. in Cyber Forensics and Security.

The Weeknd’s performance for the Super Bowl halftime show on February 7, 2021, was one to remember.

For organizations that have their inhouse platforms - like for example, Cisco employees use Jabber and WebEx while Microsoft employees use Skype, least issues would be faced when compared to organizations which use external platforms like Zoom, Google meet, Slack, etc. for hosting their discussions and meetings.

On Wednesday, February 24, 2021, the Illinois Tech Student Government Association (SGA) held their weekly Senate meeting. SGA Executive Vice President Derek Rhea led the session. To view the recorded livestream of the meeting on Facebook, go to https://bit.ly/2NuZKvT.

I can’t take them anymore

This is one of the easiest and fastest dishes to make when you are craving something sweet.

A perfect career path is not what all are following rather choosing and following a path that we love. There are several different options to choose from like technical, non-technical, arts, politics, and many more. There are many career paths with bright futures other than just technical jobs.

The dispute between Facebook and the Australian government regarding a newly proposed Media Bargaining law was resolved on February 22, 2021, when the authorities made a compromise not to charge digital platforms for using third-party content at full cost - instead agreeing to charge at at a partial cost. Before that, Australian and international news were blocked from Facebook’s Australian news feed for almost a week.

There are two types of people when buying an iPhone. Firstly, there are those that want to keep everything the same, as they believe the iPhone should not change- not with software updates and not even with the home button removals. Secondly, there is us, the bring-on-the-changers, we fear absolutely nothing, we don't even fear the disappearance of a headphone jack.

Have you seen or heard about the movie “Atlantis: The Lost Empire?” If not, it was Disney’s first sci-fi movie which was released in 2001 and focuses on fictional kingdom of Atlantis which was drowned and lost underwater due to a massive tidal wave cause by a distinct explosion. Well, though Atlantis is a fictional island which was mentioned in Plato’s literary works and no concrete remains related to such kingdom have been found in reality, there are various underwater cities which are worth exploring if you like to dive deeper.

Nearly every day, thousands of new online companies go from idea to business. While some of these companies are systematically doomed to go up, there are those who will develop and eventually become very popular. Undoubtedly, anyone who discovers how to set up an online company wishes to be in the select group of great successes. The problem is how to launch an online company that can hit big and prosper. Dedication and hard work, instance, is the fuel that drives the machine, however if the proper instruments aren’t used to keep it moving, the machine would have problems remaining on the tracks. There is several equipment out there which can support your online company work more effectively.