This essay was written by Rakean Radya Al Barra during the end of 2019. "One of the great challenges of our time is that the disparities we face today have more complex causes and point less straightforwardly to solutions."Omar Wasow Confronting a tattooed man on the street was definitely not on my to-do list. "Man, …
This post was written for the "Tantangan Masa Depan" Challenge of OSKM ITB 2020 by Rakean Radya Al Barra, Keluarga 12, NIM 16720359. This version was written in English to better represent the author's thoughts. Let's Start with a Story Imagine this. You're a farmer in a rural area, who works in land owned by …
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Time sure does fly, doesn't it? I started this Japan series on April 25th, exactly a year after the completion of our exchange program all the way back in 2019. And now we're well past 2020's half-year mark and are even seeing July roll into a close. So that means I've been writing this stuff …
Welcome back to another installment of this little Japan series! Thanks for dropping by guys, I really appreciate all the comments from you readers. If you're new here, please take the time to check out some of the previous parts of this series. Here's Part 7 and Part 6. And the links to the previous …
Yep, you heard that correctly; I - a run-of-the-mill Indonesian high school student -attended a lecture from a Nobel laureate, in Tokyo of all places. Sounds pretty sick, eh? In this here post, I'll be retelling the events of April 23rd, 2019 - the fourth day of my participation in the Sakura Science High School …
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