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Newsflash: Breakfast can be so much more than a plain bagel and coffee. To demonstrate the simplicity of whipping up nutritious, portable, and ― most importantly ― delicious breakfast bites, we partnered with the Incredible Edible Egg to share tasty recipes that pair eggs with fresh vegetables that you can make and take with you to work, school or anywhere at all. Some you can whip up on the spot during a busy morning; others are great make-ahead dishes you can reheat in flash. Whether it’s muffin-tin strata or crunchy zucchini pizza, these breakfasts will make your mornings more memorable ― and a lot more delicious!

1. Muffin-Tin Strata

Strata fans will also love this mini-me version of the popular breakfast casserole. The make-ahead muffins can be reheated one by one … until there are none left!

2. Baked Eggs In A Basket

“Baked eggs in a basket” pack an entire plate’s worth of rich, cheesy flavor into compact morsels that travel well. But let’s be honest ― this easy meal will probably take only a few quick bites to polish off!

3. Zucchini And Egg Breakfast Pizza

If you adore breakfast dishes as mouthwatering as they are beautiful, look no further than this spiralized zucchini “pizza” by The Pancake Princess ― complete with an egg and tomato topping. Have a slice for breakfast!

4. Spinach And Mushroom Frittata

Consider frittatas a one-and-done wonder, because this portable recipe will leave you satiated until lunch. Learn how to make this shockingly simple spinach, mushroom and feta frittata at Love Grows Wild.

5. Huevos Rancheros Breakfast Burrito

Liven up your breakfast routine with a huevos rancheros breakfast burrito that has a little kick to it from Willow of Will Cook For Friends.

6. Poached Egg Sandwich With Arugula

Poaching an egg is not as difficult as it may look. Trust us. Actually, trust Chef Julie Yoon, who has the delicious recipe ― with a poaching play-by-play ― on her website.

7. Spinach Quiche Cups

We can’t get enough of this fantastic mini-quiche recipe from Abigail of the Manila Spoon that can (and should!) be eaten anywhere and everywhere.

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, whether you’re eating on-the-go or preparing an elaborate sit-down brunch. Make your breakfast into something mouthwatering, memorable and healthy with the help of the Incredible Edible Egg.

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Growing up in this day and age is tough. You are expected to look, dress, speak, think, and behave a certain way — all of which are heavily contingent on the environment in which you have grown up. In my strict, traditional Chinese household, it was a foreign concept to be proud of any achievements. Instead, I thrived off knowing I could always do better and authority figures around me constantly compared me to my peers — conveniently only those who were seen as more successful than I was.

When I was younger, I always felt like I lived in my elder brother’s shadow. I would always get one less A than he did in national examinations, or rank slightly lower in swim meets. Similarly, I would always receive fewer speaker points than my partner in debate tournaments. These seemingly objective measurements of success told me I was not good enough and that, no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn’t keep up.

Perhaps being prudent with praises was just a part of Asian culture, but I felt that no matter how much I tried, I could never live up to my parents’ impossible standards of excellence. At various points in my life, I remember resenting and rebelling against their goals for me. I was trapped in a box that I had no autonomy of constructing or sustaining.

Reflecting on my first year in university, I wonder if my experiences growing up contributed to my feelings of inadequacy. Initially, that was all I thought it was: feeling inadequate. But I soon realized I constantly felt underqualified at my university, too.

Minerva, where I go to university, has an acceptance rate of less than 2%. It attracts “the world’s best and brightest.” So when I found out I was accepted, I was convinced it was an admissions mistake. How could I have qualified for this prestigious university program? I kept doubting the system that presented me with this opportunity. How did they select their students? Why did they choose me?

A few weeks after I received my admissions notification, Ben Nelson, the founder of Minerva, came to Kuala Lumpur to meet us admits. I was incredibly nervous. I tried not to talk too much because I feared I would say something unintelligent and get my acceptance revoked. He explained how Minerva evaluated their applicants and assured me that I belonged here. I still wasn’t convinced.

Flash forward a few months when I moved to San Francisco, I remember being at a cafe and preparing for class the next day when I felt overwhelmed with the complex jargons and unfamiliar concepts being introduced. I took my first preparatory quiz that day and scored a zero. A zero. I was convinced I was a fraud at this highly selective school, they would find out soon enough, and I’d be on the next plane back to Malaysia. I was convinced I didn’t belong at Minerva.

At the same time, I was amazed at how accomplished my peers were when they shared their experiences from their gap years and study abroad programs. Comparing myself to my classmates was like second nature to me. I felt small and under qualified. I looked back at my resume and made excuses for my successes. Being proud of my accomplishments felt foreign to me so I made excuses for why I got “lucky.”

With the help of my professor and mentor, Dr. Michelle Greene, I realized I was experiencing something very normal: Imposter Syndrome. It is the inability to internalize your successes and fear that you might be exposed as an imposter. It seemed as though Imposter Syndrome was holding me back, by making me feel insecure and unsure of myself.

Acknowledging that my feelings were normal, helped me rebuild my confidence. Slowly, I started trusting myself to proofread my papers. I started raising my hand in class more often than I usually would and I started reminding myself that I was significant. I made a conscious effort to give myself mental praise when I was brushing my teeth in the morning, and when I finally grasped a concept from a complex reading, I’d give myself a pat on the back. Small gestures like these have helped me love myself again, and I think I am starting to believe that I am worthy of that love.

While I cannot confidently say I will never feel like an impostor again, I do see how it has motivated and fueled me so far in life; My feelings of inadequacy created a need to work harder than everyone else in order to prove myself. I genuinely feel like it has made me strive for success but maintain a humble spirit. Never again will I look at my straight As and tell myself that I got lucky.

If you resonated with my struggles with Imposter Syndrome, my advice to you is to try to look at your accomplishments as though you were looking at it from a friend’s perspective. This perspective should not discount any of your efforts, even though it is human nature to do so. Stop telling yourself you got lucky. Stop worrying about whether or not you got lucky, and embrace that idea that maybe — just maybe — your hard work and grit had a little something to do with it.

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Pay no attention to the cordial press releases. Google ― sorry, Alphabet ― sure looks like it’s thinking about taking on Uber.

Earlier this week, Google announced that its popular Waze app, which offers crowd-sourced navigation and has 65 million active users, plans to explore a carpooling feature in the Bay Area sometime this fall.

At around the same time, David Drummond ― chief legal officer at Alphabet, the parent company of Google ― announced his resignation from Uber’s board of directors. Drummond’s departure ends a three-year stint with the company that began in 2013, when Google invested $360 million in Uber.

Both companies released statements attesting to their continued collaborative spirit. “I wish David and Alphabet the best, and look forward to continued cooperation and partnership,” Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said. Drummond said that Google Ventures “remains an enthusiastic investor and Google will continue to partner with Uber.”

Still, it’s hard not to read this week’s events as signs that Google is planning to get into the ride-hailing game in a big way.

Not mentioned in the official company statements: Uber had intentionally shut both Drummond and Google Ventures CEO David Krane out of board meetings for “a significant amount of time” prior, reports The Information.

Also not mentioned: Earlier this month, Uber announced that it had acquired Otto, a self-driving truck company that counts among its co-founders ― who else? ― Anthony Levandowski, one of the minds behind Google’s self-driving research, and Lior Ron, an alumnus of Google Maps.

With the announcement of the new Waze carpooling feature, charmingly called “WazeRider,” it seems things are coming to a head.

“Considering that Waze reportedly has more than 50 million users, Google is arguably more knowledgeable — and has more insight — towards driving habits than any other company on the planet,” Kelley Blue Book analyst Michael Harley told NBC, adding that this is likely just “the tip of this emerging iceberg [in the] rapidly evolving ride-sharing wave.”

From a financial perspective, if Google is indeed planning to storm the ride-hailing world, it’s doing so at an opportune time. Uber announced last week that it’s already lost over $1 billion this year in its unsuccessful battle for Chinese market share, and it needs to clean up its balance sheet ahead of a potential IPO. And rumors persist that Lyft is shopping itself around for a corporate buyer (Lyft denies these.)

Google’s pockets are sufficiently deep to make a grand entrance into this space if it wants. Perhaps even more importantly, it has the detailed mapping data necessary to actually put self-driving cars on the road ― an ultimate goal for Uber, Lyft and many other companies.

“Nominally, you can do autonomous driving without high-definition maps,” Sam Abuelsamid, senior research analyst at Navigant Research, told Popular Mechanics earlier this summer. “But if you get into challenging situations like rainy or snowy conditions, or can’t see the curbs or lane markings, it’s almost like putting a blind person behind the wheel.”

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