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School during summer not a bad use of time
By Ibrahim Bah
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Thursday, September 18, 2003
Ibrahim Bah -- Guest Column
This past summer, I stayed in St. Cloud and took four classes. Little did I know this would turn out to be interesting and fun. Staying meant I had to either live in boredom for the next months or find something to make my time valuable and pleasant. Perhaps I knew if I didn't find anything interesting, I would be confined to a summer of torture for not taking a vacation.
In this case I wasn't ready to subject myself to such outcome, so I made a list of activities and things that I felt needed improvement in my life. The list included getting more acquainted with investing in stocks, improving my Web-designing skills, learning how to cook new recipes, practicing public speaking techniques and polishing my writing skills. Others included dating, martial arts and going to the gym. Through this experience I realized that most of my skills were so outdated that they could be traced back to the Stone Age. Some skills I had to start from scratch. This is one of those moments when I started questioning where have I been for the past years that I am so out of touch.
I'm sure you too have improvements that you need to work on. Whether your case is not as bad as mine, where my list of things to fix outnumbered the ones I've gotten a grip on, engage yourself in a continuous pursuit of improvement. �I'm not talking about pretending to be someone else while chatting or trying to get rich overnight. I'm talking about achievable goals like going to the gym or buying new clothes for a better appearance.
Go ahead, be nicer to yourself and start changing the things within your control.
In making the list of things you may consider working on; you'll find that most of them will put you in a position of meeting new people. �For example, if you go to the gym, whether your reasons are to look great and get more attention than ever before or just want to feel healthy, you'll meet lots of people and feel great.
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