My claim to fame
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
I had the amazing opportunity to write an article in Imperial College’s Felix newspaper about entrepreneurship and why university students should start start-ups. Felix is currently 2008’s Guardian Student Newspaper of the Year. Niccolo Corsini, the man who works tirelessly behind Imperial Entrepreneurs, edited it to promote our events more.
I called the article, “What are you going to do with your life?” Last year, in my second year at the University of Melbourne, our tutor went around our Engineering Analysis (maths) class and asked what we wanted to do with our lives. I replied, “entrepreneur”, another guy said, “business person”, and the other 23 people didn’t know. So I thought, “What are you going to do with your life?” would be enough to tempt confused students to read.
Niccolo didn’t like my title though, and thought up two very entertaining names instead. One involved two monkeys. The other, Uncle Sam. With accompanying pictures. They were lewd! They were controversial!
Unfortunately, the editors didn’t like Niccolo’s titles, and censored it for, “Climbing the ladder by saving the world?” with their own accompanying picture.
A title catches the eye. A picture tells a thousand words. I don’t think either work with the article. But oh well, I got into Felix! :)
The article was printed on Friday 13 March 2009.
