An attempt to even sum up the 4 months spent in Zanzibar and mainland Tanzania would do my experiences during this past semester a severe injustice. Even my sporadic and incomplete travel blog only scratched the surface of the amazing and wonderful encounters and adventures I had abroad. To say the least, spending the semester in Zanzibar, Tanzania was the smartest decision I’ve made so far in my college career, or life even.
As my transition back to the first and modern world ends in the following week, I’ll begin a new period of creative development and growth working in the marketing department of Intuit’s Payments Division in Woodland Hills. And in light of the finally official acceptance from Columbia University, I’ll be moved into New York City come the final week of August.
5 months in, and my prediction of 2012 being my year has already proven to be true. But Zanzibar was only the best possible beginning to the year, and I’m just only getting started.
Tanzania-bound in less than 24 hours.
royu:
This will be my blog while I’m abroad in Tanzania. Internet will probably be spotty, so when I do get a chance to re-connect with the developed world this will be my medium of choice. Feel free to follow to keep up with my adventures.
“Someday, he’ll feel too old. Maybe the wrist will hurt too much. Maybe the passion will wane. But not now. He’s too good. This is too much fun, not just the winning, but proving that No. 7 is insultingly low, too. Hell hath no fury like Kobe scorned. Damn, this is fun to watch.”
Lana and her haunting voice.
npr:
The idea that an ugly face might hide a subtle mind has attracted scientific inquiries for many years. At first, scientists wanted to know whether it was possible to read someone’s intelligence from the shape of his face. In 1918, a researcher in Ohio showed a dozen photographic portraits of well-dressed children to a group of physicians and teachers, and asked the adults to rank the kids from smartest to dumbest. A couple of years later, a Pittsburgh psychologist ran a similar experiment using headshots of 69 employees from a department store. In both studies, seemingly naive guesses were compared to actual test scores, and turned out to be accurate more often than not.
Jon Huntsman doubles down in fight with Mitt Romney
The more I read about him the more I like him. He’d probably steal my vote from Obama if he were to win the nomination.
Here’s a word that I have a special affinity towards. Used negatively, it could certainly convey disappointment. To say that a person had so much potential and never fulfilled it is something that few would want to hear. Used positively, however, and the word potential becomes what I consider to be one of the greatest compliments. Potential means that who you are right now is not the best that you can be. And that’s a comforting thought, no matter how great you might think you are right now. You can be better. This is a forward looking idea that builds on the ideas of improvement and progress. And it’s hard to disagree with the notion that people can always make further strides towards simply being better.
Furthermore, to say that a person has a ton of potential is to say that you believe that this person has the ability to accomplish things better than that person has already achieved to date. It tells the person that you believe in him or her. And taken with the right attitude, this idea of potential can prove to be quite powerful. So the next time you truly want to compliment people on their abilities, tell them how much potential you think they have.