July 2025

How Performing for College Apps Is Stealing Your Life. (Or, letting go and reclaiming my days).
Every time a student asks me, “Will this look good on my application?”—something inside me dies.
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Hasan Jamal
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Going abroad won’t save you. (Or: how to stop running from who you are).
There’s a strange tension I see every day working with students—especially in private schools, even the supposedly “abami” (public-leaning) ones.
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Heck yeah free stuff! Or “I Made This Folder So You Don’t Have to Open 38 Tabs and Lose Your Mind” - college counselling edition.
When I was designing our school’s counseling curriculum, I kept running into the same wall.
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Hasan Jamal

May 2025

March 2025

The Price of Prestige: What It Feels Like to Be a School Counsellor in a World of Million-Rupee College Consultants
Every year, I watch it happen.
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Hasan Jamal
Preparing for a Future That May Not Exist
“What should I study?”
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What Comes After? The Question Schools Never Ask
For all the time, energy, and sheer emotional labor we pour into getting students into university, we almost never ask them: What comes after?
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Hasan Jamal
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Knowledge, now $99.99 per month forever.
I remember browsing through online resources, flipping through an IB Economics e-textbook, calculating how many meals I’d have to skip to afford it.
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Hasan Jamal
The Middle School Black Hole: Why Our Kids Can’t Read or Write by High School
My first-ever class: eighth-grade English.
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Breaking Up with the British/IB System: Why Are We Still Paying Millions for Their Exams?
For as long as I can remember, the gold standard for a “good” education in Pakistan has been a foreign one.
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The American Dream (Denied): Why Studying in the U.S. May No Longer Be Worth It
Growing up in Pakistan, studying in the U.S.
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