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☆ Waiting for your college acceptance letters can be excruciating. Here's how I survived that anxiety-inducing time.
  + stars: | 2024-01-12 | by ( Miles Kirkpatrick | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Waiting for months to find out if I got into the college of my dreams was painful. But here's how I got through the waiting period with my sanity intact. AdvertisementI didn't try to avoid thinking about college or my applicationsIf I could have forced myself to stop thinking about my college applications, I would have. Eventually I got accepted into my dream school, Yale. With that mindset, the waiting period flew by, and I was able to enjoy those last few months of high school.
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☆ These twins started companies together and other cofounders can learn a lot from them about rivalries, comparisons and being close to your business partner
  + stars: | 2022-12-18 | by ( Ryan Hogg | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +12 min
Having a business partner you are personally close to can be a huge benefit, they said. Torsten Pieper, an academic at UNC Charlotte, told Insider that twins having distinct roles in a business can be beneficial. Research from the Institute for Family Business showed companies that promote themselves as family-run can gain greater trust and are better placed to attract talent. Phan said family businesses inherently care about their communities, because their identity is often attached to the community where they work. As long as we're together, that's greatAll the twins said their businesses have changed the nature of their relationships.
☆ UNC Charlotte updates policy to allow Sikh students to wear kirpan on campus
  + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Brahmjot Kaur | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +3 min
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte announced this week that it would allow Sikh students to wear a kirpan on campus, a religious article. The change comes about two months after a video was posted online showing a student who was handcuffed for carrying the ceremonial dagger. The university thanked Sikh leaders, including nonprofit organizations The Sikh Coalition and the Global Sikh Council, who provided expertise and perspective to help with the policy change. A video of the student being handcuffed was posted on the Twitter account @thatsamaan in September, and its user identified himself as the student in question. “I wasn’t going to post this, but I don’t think I will receive any support from @unccharlotte,” he tweeted along with the video.
☆ UNC apologizes for handcuffing student whose Sikh article of faith was mistaken for a weapon
  + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Brahmjot Kaur | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +3 min
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte has apologized after a video was posted online showing a Sikh student who was handcuffed for carrying a kirpan, a religious article that resembles a knife. “Further investigation showed the item was a kirpan, an article of faith in Sikhism.”Video of the incident was posted on the Twitter account @thatsamaan, and its user identified himself as the student in question. You want me to take the whole thing off?” the student asked. The police officer told the student to stand up and the student asked, “What are you doing to me, bro?” before the officer told him he was being detained. The Twitter user tweeted on Saturday that he did receive his kirpan back.
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