Making The Right Play

Making The Right Play

By Ishira and ManethBusinessCareers
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Making The Right Play episodes

  • Going Public On Public Relations | S01E14

    Interested in PR? Then you PRobably want to listen to our conversation with Daanish. Daanish currently runs a student-related public relations association named PR Ramp and has had countless work experiences that help him function efficiently in his field. He has extremely interesting ideas about a lot of topics including philosophy and filmmaking too.


    We cover what public relations is about, how someone can get jobs and opportunities in public relations, Daanish's initiatives and his thoughts about brown culture and the arts.

    You don’t want to miss this one and you should stay in touch with his work! He is truly a superstar

    20 min
  • First Gen First Experiences at YaleNUS | S01E13

    Maleeka is wrapping up her first year at YaleNUS College in Singapore. She has had a consistent passion for Economics and Politics which she has demonstrated with her internships, projects, and involvement in school. We had a conversation with her about her experiences as a first-generation student in a liberal arts university, the crazy achievements she had in her gap year (she was a radio personality too!) and the problems that she is interested in solving through her work. We have always admired Maleeka’s perseverance and we were extremely proud to have her on our podcast!

    28 min
  • Revving up for Research | S01E12

    Tune in to our awesome convo with Dayan with a focus on research: what it is, how to get started, and what to expect. Unfortunately due to a technical glitch, we lost a portion of the conversation but thankfully the bulk of the important content was retained! Dayan is an amazing individual and a powerful self-starter and we could all take a page out of his book!l

    25 min
  • Lost In Linguistics | S01E11

    Ruqaiyah is an offer holder for the MSc in Speech and Language Sciences program at UCL. She also graduated from UCL with a Bachelors in Experimental Linguistics which is a tremendous achievement. We were extremely curious to know about her program and the other experiences she has had as a student including her work as a youth advocate at war and we were extremely glad when she agreed to come on our podcast to discuss her work further! There is no debate that she is a real-life superhero.

    24 min
  • Dynamic Duo: Life in the United Kingdom | S01E10

    Navidu is currently a Tech Strategy Consultant at Deloitte UK and attended Imperial College London for most of his undergraduate and graduate studies. Moneli is in her final year reading Economics and Business at UCL (University College London). Navidu and Moneli truly immersed themselves in their student experiences in the United Kingdom and they have a lot of advice about how to succeed through life in college/university and how to frame your thought process for success outside college. We were extremely happy that they agreed to come on and we are certain that you will learn a lot from this episode

    31 min
  • Leaving Home | S01E09

    Both of us had different experiences with leaving home but we also realised how similar our emotions about figuring life out outside home is as first-generation students. We thought it was a good topic for conversation since we hadn't spoken about this personally before either.

    #podcasts #college #university

    30 min
  • LSE, Life and London | S01E08

    LSE is the most desired university for a large number of students across the world and we will have an insider view into the lives of two star students at LSE. We talk about program structures, post grad plans, life in London and how we all found out how competitive university can get. Don’t miss out!

    #podcasts #academics #university #LSE #programs #UK #london

    28 min
  • Fight And Flight | S01E07

    Stephan is an aspiring aviator and this star got his commercial pilot license recently! Learn about the aviation industry, Stephan’s thoughts about how COVID affected the industry, his journey thus far and what it takes to persevere through non traditional career decisions.

    #podcasts #aviation #pilot #spotify #anchor #college #university #careers #aerospace

    25 min
  • The Knowledge Problem | S01E06

    A researcher, software engineer, TA and, most of all, a student of everything, Ketan comes on with takes on what we can do to make the most of college. Be it figuring out how to get involved in research, picking between industry and academia or building a second brain (yes, really) Ketan has done it all so make sure you don't miss it.

    #podcast #stanford #notetaking

    27 min
  • Diary Of A Cornellian | S01E05

    Listen to Ishini discuss life at Cornell, the process of getting there  (on an almost entirely self-funded path!!!), dealing with competing with the 1% and how she got hit by a bus all on this episode of MTRP.


    #podcast #cornell #STEM

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    23 min

About Making The Right Play

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Hi! This is from Ishira and Maneth, your hosts for “Making the right play”. MTRP is a new multimedia series where we will discuss how we dealt with the complexities of college and beyond. We plan on…