What I’m willing to do while waiting for a job

I’ll do it for free
I WOULD gladly intern for free, were I convinced that the experience would be worth it in my chosen field of journalism.
With hiring freezes in almost all local news media companies, I found many doors shut in my face. So after evaluating my choices, I felt it might be a [...]

An arty-dirty ad campaign

IMAGES of everyday life, such as flowers, trees and playing children, have adorned a 10m-long stretch of stone wall along Kallang Road for the last three weeks.
In a process known as reverse graffiti, the designs were created by cleaning patches of dirt off the wall. Done overnight using stencils and cleaning agents, it forms part [...]

What will it take for alumni to give back?

Focus on niche communities
THE sheer size of the student body at the National University of Singapore (NUS) works against fostering a sense of belonging among students.
Take, for instance, the 5,100-strong Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. It is easy to feel lost on those weekday afternoons when I have to rush for classes with hundreds [...]

The ‘wrong’ job may just prove right later

FOR the past few months, while my fellow final-year students in university fretted and sweated about landing an ideal job upon graduation, I was investigating the same issue among another age group: the elderly.
Along with my group-mates, I followed a 61-year old man, Mr Shon Lee, in his search for a job.
The research was all [...]

It may be time to rethink how we relate to foreigners

One in four Singapore residents is a foreigner. How are Singaporeans grappling with new stereotypes? Youthinkers weigh in.
Can’t tar all with same brush
IN THE hostel where I stay at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), female students share a toilet, and I have spent two of the past three years cleaning up after the Chinese nationals I [...]

What charity really means

Help needy overseas or focus on those at home? YouthInkers wonder where it begins.
Overseas trips a form of inspiration
SOME people believe that overseas community projects are either a form of self-gratification or an absolute waste of money.
I disagree. I believe they serve to widen the horizons of participants, inspiring them to take further action for [...]

Could a dorm for young adults work?

With the cost of renting apartments so high, what about dorm rooms for young adults? YouthInk writers consider the proposal.
Home is where the heart is

WHEN I graduate in a few months’ time, home is where I will gravitate to from my campus hostel.
Specially built dorms for young working adults? No, thanks – I’d rather drown [...]