Marium Saeed is a journalism student at Northwestern University’s branch in Doha, Qatar. She is currently working in Lyon, France and loves to write, read, and discover new cultures.

What can Generation Z teach Generation Y?

There he was, a young boy dressed in a baggy hoodie and jeans, with a beanie covering his shoulder-length hair. He was there to teach us all a valuable lesson about happiness. “If you ask a little kid (what they want to be when they grow up), sometimes you’ll get the best answer, something so simple, so obvious and really profound. When I grow up, I want to be happy,” said 13-year-old Logan LaPlante during his captivating and entertaining Tedx talk. LaPlante goes on to tell the audience how he ‘hacked’ his education. His parents took him out of traditional school at the age of nine, and since then, he’s been taking advantage…